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World - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 3, 2022
DO SVIDANIYA, MR GORBACHEV!!
Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, leaves behind a legacy which is as confused and mixed up as the world he lived in his final days.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 3, 2022
LIBYA: A FORSAKEN LAND?
Pushed to the backwaters of international reckoning, war-torn Libya's long night of self-destruction seems never-ending.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 27, 2022
THE WOLVES OF 1MDB
Malaysia, one of the Asian Tigers, exposed its vulnerabilities with a corruption scandal involving billions.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 27, 2022
THE REAL SUFFERERS
How do wars that pertain to ideological and ethnic differences affect minorities most?
World - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 27, 2022
FACING FUEL POVERTY?
The lives of citizens in the UK have changed for the worse owing to the unplanned decisions of the government.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 20, 2022
NIGHTMARE ON GAZAN STREETS
A major military operation in Gaza has become an annual event leaving little space for reconciliation.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 20, 2022
THE DICHOTOMY OF GLOBAL DOMINATION
Can China assume primacy on the Global Stage for the betterment of the world?
World - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 13, 2022
HOSTAGE DIPLOMACY???
While the proposed exchange may give an inclination of the direction that global politics are headed towards
World - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 13, 2022
RIDING THE K- WAVE
South Korean music and drama has been sweeping the world, successfully competing against decades of American cultural dominance.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 6, 2022
BAITING THE DRAGON!
Amidst rising unpredictability in global geopolitics, one thing remains constant: the game of power and influence.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 6, 2022
THE FOOD CORRIDOR FOR THE WORLD
The Black Sea is an important route for global commerce, and five months of fighting has almost closed it for all merchant shipping
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 30, 2022
PAK ECONOMY INCREASING DISTRESS?
A worsening global economy is denying Pakistan any green shoots of recovery, while Sri Lanka’s situation sends shivers down its collective spine.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 30, 2022
RUSSIAN OUTREACH IN THE MIDDLE EAST
In his second foreign visit outside Russia, President Putin met President Erdogan and the Iranian President Raisi in Tehran.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 23, 2022
AN ENDURING LEGACY!!!
A Pivotal Chapter in India-Japan Relations comes to an end with India losing its most ardent advocate in Japan.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 23, 2022
REVIVING SRI LANKA
The successors to the Rajapaksa family coterie will have their work cut out as they try to match expenditure to revenue
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 23, 2022
HOTTER SUMMERS & COLDER WINTERS
The realities of climate change are finally dawning on the global North as they face unusual equatorial temperatures in their temperate latitudes.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 16, 2022
RUSSIAN SANCTIONS THROUGH CHINESE PRISM
The BRICS provided China and Russia and ideal platform to cajole fellow members to unite against unilateral western sanctions.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 16, 2022
RISE OF THE YUAN?
Concealed by the din of the Russian- West confrontation over Ukraine has been the slow but steady climb of the Chinese Yuan as an attractive alternative to the all-mighty dollar.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 16, 2022
A PRAGMATIC APPROACH
Impelled by the Ukraine Crisis to take its eyes off other global areas of contestation, the Biden Administration is refocussing on the Middle for its own and its allies’ energy security.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 9, 2022
DECLINING GOALS OF HUMAN WELLNESS
Once touted as the path to universal human wellbeing, the UN-mandated Sustainable Development Goals are slipping in many critical areas, indicating a worsening of the lot of the poor.