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India, China teeter toward a border clash
Both sides have sent reinforcements to disputed Ladakh line, as Beijing flexes its muscles around Asia Pepe Escobar It would be counter-productive for BRICS and Shanghai…
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COVID-19 accelerates Bolsonaro’s project against the Amazon and indigenous people
In Brazil, those who are dying in the greatest numbers are those who have been treated as objects since the 2018 presidential campaign: those of African…
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AFA8: CAN WE TRUST AMERICA? MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON How to maximise US strength in Asia
Canberra today has one major foreign policy dilemma that outranks all others: how should Australia position itself between a more powerful China and an increasingly unpredictable…
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Putin and the ‘Distinct Russian Civilization’
How the Kremlin tries to explain the coronavirus crisis to its people. Ilya Klishin In the closing days of May 2020, at the peak of the…
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Democracy and International Relations
“The democratic sovereignty of the people” must also bow to this logic: whoever wants to have functioning international relations between states must subordinate the democratic self-determination…
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Understanding of De facto one party state with corporatocracy and inverted totalitarianism
Nature, contents and contexts of politics, political science and government(s) evolve and move in various and varied moods and modes in the settings of time space…
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Will the crisis bring Russia back to the 1990s?
What does this crisis look like How much will the crisis in Russia in 2020 differ from the crisis of the early 1990s? A blow to…
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RECENT DELHI ANTI-MUSLIM VIOLENCE India’s Kristallnacht?
THE Anti-Muslim violence that took place during the last week of February (February 23–25) this year in Delhi which was largely concentrated in the north-eastern part…
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Is a Global Economic Rescue Package the Answer?
The United Nations has been relentlessly pursuing a highly-ambitious blueprint for the sustainable future of humanity –harking back to the adoption of a new global economic…
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Megacity slums are incubators of disease – but coronavirus response isn’t helping the billion people who live in them
Robert Muggah and Richard Florida Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into the megacities of developing countries. Sprawling…