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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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UN needs a paradigm shift to lead us out of the crisis
The first Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, remarked in 1948, "The United Nations may need to adjust to new realities and respond to unforeseen…
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Will Zoomplomacy Last?
As the coronavirus rages on, diplomacy has moved completely online—with mixed reviews. Daniel B. Shapiro and Daniel Rakov During the first week of April, at the…
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Fire, injury and death: What’s happening in Lebanon’s Tripoli?
At the end of April, Lebanon’s Tripoli witnessed some of the most violent clashes between security forces and protesters since anti-government demonstrations exploded across the country…
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What will the new normal look like?
More remote work, more cashless transactions, and new opportunities for telecom can be anticipated Mamun Rashid The Covid-19 pandemic, the greatest global crisis of the 21st…
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Malaysia is beating coronavirus, so why should Muhyiddin be worried?
The country, once the worst hit in Southeast Asia, is now relaxing measures after a stunning turnaround in fortunes But the new prime minister is not…
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Should Bangladesh defer LDC graduation?
Debapriya Bhattacharya and Fareha Raida Islam Bangladesh has attained considerable development progress in the past three decades. This has led it to enter a dual-graduation phase—moving…
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Putin Withdraws From the Coronavirus Crisis in a Political Abdication
Putin is clearly eager to avoid being identified with the pandemic and the difficult measures being adopted to fight it. Mark Galeotti Abdication tends to be…
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A wake-up call for universal social protection
Fahmida Khatun and Syed Yusuf Saadat The coronavirus pandemic has bluntly exposed how a large number of people across the world are susceptible to health and…
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From social solidarity to economic solidarity
COVID-19 has exposed the fallacious estrangement, alienation and segregation in social relations. As the contagion dispersed from local households to firms to the global sphere, distorted…
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Unlocking SME finance through credit guarantee schemes
CGSs can be leveraged to provide countercyclical financing to SMEs during an economic slowdown – like that of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis Mamun Rashid and Avirup…
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COVID-19 and the Global Economic Recovery: Why We Should Be Thinking About “Doughnut Economics”
The world will never be the same once COVID-19 has run its full course, and in some ways that is not a bad thing. The virus…