Interlude: Kashmir During a Pandemic on July 30, 2020It is not without good reason and with quite some trepidation that Pakistan has, time and again, sought the assistance of the international community of nations to streamline the conflict in Kashmir. The time to do so is more urgent now than ever before, given the waning regional and international focus on conflict resolution in […]
The Phase One Agreement: An American project gone rogue? on May 17, 2020As American officials hurl accusations at China, most of which are apocryphal at best as they stand now, Chinese tabloids are responding in kind. Letting these theatrics play their course, however, Robert Lighthizer and his team at the Office of the United States Trade Representative need to sharpen their pencils. The Phase One Trade Agreement […]
The British elections, Brexit and other christmas traditions on December 28, 2019As if, and quite non diegetically, a Christmas Carol builds up to its crescendo on a winter Christmas Morning in Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London, while the city streets are laden in virgin Christmas snows, treating all to pleasant viewing, the British electorate and its parliament have served up perhaps the more dramatic of their […]
The various populisms of climate change on October 2, 2019It would be a little amiss and slightly convenient to associate populism with the struggles to prevent climate change tout court. The narratives, they have taken hold, might not be mutually exclusive academically, but are poles apart in public opinion. They might share radical undertones aimed at presenting traditional political thought and practice as malfeasance […]
The evolving nature of US and British leadership on August 30, 2019With much trepidation among the masses and those elected to represent them, Britain is, slowly and surely, waltzing its way “back” into a burlesque; if it has not done so already. If there is one thing Britain has effectively borrowed from its European neighbours, it is the political theatre that they have staged for the […]
A case in American and British Democracies on April 26, 2019To borrow a concept as archaic in provenance as done so in the title, is as purposeful to the state of democracy in Britain and Brexit in particular as was Nigel Farage’s address to the European Parliament earlier this year. “….I think many will say, we are simply dealing with fanatics who are not prepared […]