November 2017

While a dwindling band of refuseniks still insist that is doesn’t exist, climate change is already here, and it’s only going to get worse, with some of the severe effects having already started to take hold. The Paris Agreement was implemented as a collaborative global response to climate change, with a goal of reducing emissions. It aims to keep the …

In recent years, there has been much talk about the crisis of liberalism. The liberal world order that has held sway over international affairs for the past seven decades has been fragmenting under the pressure of systemic economic stresses, growing tribalism and nationalism, and a general loss of confidence in established international and national institutions. The election of Donald Trump …

The Indo-Japanese relationship is rapidly gathering impetus; taking shape faster than any of New Delhi’s current strategic partnerships in Asia. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who shortly after his India visit announced snap elections in Japan, was in India to attend the 12th India-Japan Annual Summit. Both countries have agreed to establish the India-Japan Act East Forum with the intention …

By: Dr Sattar Qayyum Since the outbreak of the euro crisis in 2009-10, Europe has been witnessing contradictory trends and developments ranging from efforts to contain the spread of systemic risk in the financial sector to calls for the creation of a European pillar of social rights, and neoliberalism still reigns supreme in EU’s economic policy agenda. In the meantime, …

It’s beyond debate that the shootings outside the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas will go into the history books as the largest mass shooting in modern US history, with at least 59 dead and more than 500 wounded. What’s also indisputable is that this shooting – like the Pulse nightclub shooting before it and Newtown before that and Columbine …

This part of the debate proposes to discuss the much highlighted, but under-researched applicability of the international law to Myanmar crisis where Rohingya Muslims are being persecuted. The constitutional and international law perspectives have been briefly discussed from Pakistan’s viewpoint. 3. Pakistan-Myanmar: Applying the Int’l Law The media in Pakistan are inundated with material related to the persecution of Muslims …

Looking at the global political landscape over the recent months, two trends are becoming more apparent. The infamous military and economic power at America’s disposal is declining, whereas in the multipolar field, acceleration has occurred in the creation of a series of infrastructures, mechanisms and procedures to contain and limit the negative effects of America’s declining unipolar moment. One of …

Comparative advantage is the main force driving international trade: countries open to trade would export what they are comparatively “good” at producing, and import what they are comparatively “bad” at producing. “Good” and “bad” refer to production costs, which, in competitive markets, define prices to consumers. Economists argue that international trade makes countries, in the aggregate, better off; through imports, …

“If you want to get rich, build a road first.” — Chinese Proverb China’s New Silk Road (NSR) diplomacy came up with its revolutionary idea of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It aims at refurbishing the conventional relations of Old Silk Road under “Silk Road Spirit” into the new narratives of NSR i.e. pipelines, roads, railways and maritime linkages like …

A man whose name was largely unknown outside of China just a few years ago has become the rising Asian giant’s most powerful leader in decades. Chinese President Xi Jinping, now officially recognized as the supreme leader and the ‘core’ of the Communist Party of China, controls more power and authority than almost all of his modern predecessors. Since he …