The Disturbing Return Of The Fifth Column
Although the term “fifth column” wasn’t coined until the 1930s, the practice of identifying and targeting such threats is a far older phenomenon and arguably predates the nation-state. Read More Here
The United States Is Fighting Inflation With History
Jackson Hole is a meeting of central bankers and economists. But in making his stand, Powell invoked neither economic theory nor econometrics. Instead, he summoned history. Read More Here
China’s ‘Spy Ship’ In Sri Lanka Poses Dilemma For New Delhi
India’s security officials worry that China would use the ship’s visit as a precedent for future deployments by Chinese warships to Sri Lanka. Read More Here
Generation Killed: The Challenges Of Routinising Global Jihad
Almost inevitably, violent non-state revolutionary groups tend to be founded by charismatic figures. Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi epitomise this trend. Both men, in their own ways, presented themselves as the embodiment of their group’s values and purpose. Read More Here
The Balance Of Soft Power
As in the United States, soft power has been treated as a hopeful idea in China: an important additive to the country’s rise, especially its economic expansion. Read More Here
The Post-Global Economy
A succession of shocks over the past decade and a half have significantly reversed the dominant international economic trend of the post-Cold War era. Read More Here
India’s Taiwan Moment
Realities in the Indo-Pacific region have changed, and it’s time for New Delhi to deepen its political ties with Taipei. Read More Here
One Year Later, Afghanistan Is A Land Of Shrugs And Sadness
One year on, some things in Afghanistan have improved. Corruption, a bane of the former Afghan republic, is apparently on the wane. Large-scale fighting has largely stopped, and people in rural areas are rebuilding. At the same time, almost every Afghan is now, according to the United Nations, living below the poverty line. Read More Here
Singapore’s Next Premier Wong Warns US, China May ‘Sleepwalk Into Conflict’
Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting Lawrence Wong warned that the US and China may “sleepwalk into conflict” if they don’t engage with each other and deescalate rising tensions over Taiwan. Read More Here
How India Can Sustain Rapid Economic Growth
Given its favourable demography, democratic polity, and large and diversified economy, India can in principle grow at 7% or higher for years to come. But the only route to such growth that remains open runs through structural reforms that the government has taken off the table. Read More Here
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