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To impeach or not to impeach (Part II)
The Temer government Mr Temer’s interim government has been marked by aggressive contention measures, polemic decrees, an over homogeneous team of (arguably honest) ministers...
The Brexit issue
Currently Great Britain’s annual net budgetary transfers to the European Union amount to 13 billion pounds. In various forms, every year the European Union...
US-Pakistan Relations: The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Undoubtedly, the Pak-U.S. relations are prolonged and significant however they revolve around four facets that are demonstrative, unpredictable, passionate — and deeply flawed. It...
Understanding Arab-Islamic Politics: Advocating the Case of the Political Culture Approach (B)
The deepest crisis of our world today is of leadership. What happened in the first half of the 20th century was a crisis of...
The Dream of Durable Peace
The constant efforts for an enduring peace in Afghanistan essential for the long term and plausible peace for the people has always been a...
A brief analysis on the latest, confusing and conflicting events in Brazilian politics (Part I)
As the Upper House voted for Ms Rousseff’s suspension, many questions were raised. The people, the media, opportunist and well-intentioned public figures, they all...
Understanding Arab-Islamic Politics: Advocating the Case of the Political Culture Approach (A)
The chronicles of human history are mainly the struggle between despotic, oppressive governments, on the one hand, and freedom from tyranny and the aspiration...
Alice through the Looking Glass: Central Asia’s Eternal Presidencies
Cholpon Orozobekova’s article for The Diplomat on Central Asia’s autocratic rulers is a fascinating look at the men who helped take the central ‘stans,...
Trump’s ‘spoiler’ campaign for the Clintons is turning into a fierce feud for the US Presidency
Over the years, the New York Billionaire property developer and TV personality famous for The Apprentice Donald Trump has made a number of remarks...
I RUINED myself on Facebook
BANGKOK – It was sometimes ago that the New Yorker featured a cartoon that went something like this: “you can be a dog behind...