International Relations in India & Beyond
The anti-communist purge in Indonesia in the 1960s is retold in a compelling examination of US Cold War policy. Book review: Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington’s anti-communist crusade and the mass murder program that...
The US/China relationship — arguably the most important in the world — is on a downward spiral. The authors of Superpower Showdown describe it as a “romance gone bad.” We often read reviews claiming that a...
In the wake of the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, the scholars were eagerly putting forward their commentaries on the political developments and prospects for these former communist countries. Amidst that scholarship, Robert...
The appalling treatment of Indians under the White Australia Policy is argued by Kama Maclean to weigh over current ambitions to develop a special relationship between the two countries. As China asserts itself more...
With the ‘Arab Spring’ and the Syrian Civil-war, the European neighbourhood descended into chaos, which subsequently led to the mass migration of refugees towards Europe. It was after this wave of mass migration, that...
The Chinese Communist Party’s global influence operations are covert but pervasive, and are undermining Western democratic institutions. Hidden Hand is very welcome in raising our awareness of this, and the stakes involved. Most rising powers endeavour...
Book Review: Dexter Roberts The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World (St Martin’s Press, 2020) CCP’s discriminatory hukou system is a great obstacleto changing from world’s factory to a...
By most accounts, China has behaved badly through the COVID-19 pandemic. Fascinating insights can be derived about China’s present behaviour by looking into its past. An initial cover-up. Punishment of whistle-blowers. Permitting international travel...
Napoleon was prescient in that he said when China “wakes she will shake the world”. In the space of four decades, China has built up the world’s largest economy in purchasing power parity terms. It...
To better understand China and Chinese behaviour in International space, it is important to study the History of China and its foreign policy behaviour. While there are many books written on Chinese foreign policy,...
