my notes on World Politics
What are the historical similarities that we can draw between the ongoing one-year-long Russia-Ukrainian war? This would likely be the first unofficial war between the two countries where two records and captures battle field developments live for them. The war is unofficial according to international law as Moscow has not declared war on Kyiv. Technically […]
The chess board of global politics aligns and changes itself with every slight move in international politics so quickly and sharply that one has to be on a constant vigil least one might be at the receiving end. After the demise of the Soviet Union world remained unipolar for more than two decades. Russia attacked […]
The National Narrative. Story & story-telling is something that has always fascinated man from antiquity to the present digital age. Every region of the world & culture has its own tales that reverberate in their social or collective consciousness showing their worldview. They tell their young ones who were they, where they came from & […]
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century; A Concise History Professor Rebecca E. Karl s’ book. Chapter # 7 Great Leap and Restoration, 1958-1965 1. Khrushchev invited Mao to attain the 40th birthday of USSR in November 1957. Mao’s position in this visit was totally different from his earlier weak position of 1949. He […]
Mao Zedong and China in Twentieth-Century; A concise History Professor Rebecca. E Karl s’ book. Chapter#4 Establishing Revolutionary Bases. From Jingganshan to Yan’an, 1928-1935 1. Mao established a revolutionary base at a place called Jingganshan in the Jiangxi province in 1927- 28. The White Terror made him realized the need of a strong revolutionary army […]
The significance of gold in grand strategy is usually underrated. This misconception is the result of open denigration for the economist who believed on its superiority for the national power. For some (John Keynes) it was a ‘barbaric relic’ while for others (Ben Bernanke) it was merely a ‘tradition of past’. The two types of […]
When a plane comes spiralling down after being hit by another plane or it crashes accidently with ground, these and such like other events make headlines in media. Their value is even more heightened when they are videoed or live broadcasted to the viewers to watch on. But this is not done all the time […]
Why are National Interests Necessary? Article courtesy by; Professor Mikhail Troitsky. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru International relations are concerned with national interests and how they evolve. Some researchers insist that there are obligatory and unchangeable interests expressed in terms of power or prosperity. Others suggest reconstructing national interests depending on how a country acts in a particular situation. […]
In the 87th Session (1999) of International Labour Organization (ILO), the Director–General to the Conference give the notion of Decent Work. ‘[The] work [is] “productive work for women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity’. The four key-elements of a decent work are; 1. A fair income to employee. 2. Freedom […]
Confessions of an Economic Hit man. Some may call it an autobiography while others slams it as fictional-biography adding spicy flavours to it for its readers to make it a New York Times bestseller of 2004. Whatever may be the real motive behind writing this auto/fictional biography, it is both thought provoking and thought pacifying […]
