Posted on April 28, 2019. Tags: Belt and Road Initiative, China, South China Sea, The Quad, Vietnam
Rapid economic growth and the modernization of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has allowed China to expand its regional influence. Within the South China Sea, China’s expansion has materialized in the form of a coercive maritime strategy. Aside from straddling the key sea lanes of communication used for trade, the South China Sea also contains […]
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Posted in Asia, Australia, China, Conflict, India, Security Issues, US, World
Posted on March 24, 2019.
Climate change has the capacity to radically transform the international order. This is particularly true in South Asia, where fresh water resources from the Himalayas are dwindling rapidly. As tensions rise between India and Pakistan, it is vital to focus on the environmental and political factors at play, and to consider the potential implications of […]
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Posted in Asia, Food Security, India, Security Issues, Terrorism, World
Posted on June 5, 2017. Tags: ANC, Corruption, Cyril Ramaphosa, DA, EFF, Elitism, INC, India, Jacob Zuma, Populism, South Africa
Feeble economic growth, allegations of kleptocracy, and the controversial sacking of not one, but two Finance Ministers, headline South Africa President Jacob Zuma’s second term. In its most recent forecast, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts the country’s economy to grow at 0.8 percent this year. While the IMF’s report expects poor growth across the […]
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Posted in Africa, corruption, Economics, Global Economy, India, World
Posted on February 16, 2016. Tags: Asia, Asia Economics, China, Cold War, Great Power Politics, India, Non-alignment policy, Post- Cold War, United States
Introduction At the time of India’s independence in 1947 the world had just witnessed the end of the Second World War and was slowly being engulfed in a new power struggle with the Cold War. The brewing trend of the time was that of alliance forming with either of the blocs led by the United States (US) […]
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Posted in China, Conflict, India, Political Security, Security Issues, US, World
Posted on September 15, 2015. Tags: Cities, development, Globalization, Housing, India, public private partnerships, South Asia, urban policy
The observant visitor to the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai is offered two contradictory faces of globalisation. Corrugated iron and blue polythene slums throw the air conditioned modernity of Mumbai’s adjacent airport into sharp relief. Few, if any, of these slum residents will ever board one of the planes that land and depart by […]
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Posted in Global Economy, India, World
Posted on January 21, 2015. Tags: China, Corruption, Economics, Graft, Growth, India, Modi, Politics, Poverty, wealth, World Bank
As anyone who has spent any length of time travelling in India will attest, it is a country of stark contrasts. In few ways is this more obvious than the vast disparities in wealth between 500 million of India’s total 1.27 billion citizens living on less than $1.25 per day and a small but increasingly wealthy elite […]
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Posted in Asia, Economic Security, Economics, Food Security, Global Economy, India, Uncategorized, World