my notes on World Politics
All of us have our likes and dislikes, favourites and abhorrent and idiosyncrasies that determine our mental tendencies. This malady is a common human heritage but in times of crisis, it becomes more visible and stark than other normal times of life. History, culture, geography and political weightage of one element over the other play […]
William James and John Dewey were both critical of the US Foreign policy. They never supported or endorsed the US in 1898 the capturing of the Philippines. Even though they both their enormous impact on the philosophical and political realm, their writings and influences in politics and international relations were never fully endorsed or acknowledged. […]
The Western Asian landmass, commonly known as the Middle East in geographical terminology, is the home of all three Semitic religions, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. All of whom have some of their revered places in this region and have claims of being aboriginal of this land. With the Romans attacking and renaming it to the […]
Iran-Saudi confrontation also sometimes referred to as the Persian-Arab conflict had deep historical roots that go back to the conquest of Persia by the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century resulting in the fall of both the Sasanian Empire and the Zoroastrian religion. Thus this term, Persian-Arab or Iran-Saudi conflict as nowadays used collates within […]
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 […]
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 […]
