In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an
JOE BIDEN’S CHINA POLICY A year has passed since President JOE Biden’s accession to the Presidency of the USA. In his inaugural address, he promised to be President for all Americans, those
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Joe Biden was Vice President in Barack Obama’s administration from 2009 to 2017. In May 2013 Joe Biden in a speech a speech to a Jewish group said that the Jewish influence
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Every day since 7 October has felt like an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, with hundreds of thousands gathering in Istanbul, a million in Jakarta, and then yet another million across Africa and Latin America to demand
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Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader and former Minister Udaya Gammanpila, MP, on Nov 16, 2023, said that the first warning of the impending economic crisis had been given by a section of
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas (a U.S.-designated FTO) headed an astounding attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip by air, sea, and land. The incident occurred 50 years after the Egypt-Syria surprise
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One of the curiosities of our time is that the far right is quite comfortable with the established institutions of liberal democracy. There are instances here and there of disgruntled political leaders
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It has been 34 years since comrade Rohana Wijeweera was assassinated in November 1989. Following his death, the vacuum left by his absence prompted state terror squads, led by Janaka Perera, to
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In trying to plan for the future, world leaders are looking to the past. “When this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next, and in our
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The forthcoming first visit by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to Saudi Arabia on November 13 marks a milestone in the rapprochement between the two countries mediated by China in March. The relationship
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Each new Middle East crisis is one of a kind, similar to the previous ones – both in the sense of its impact on the region itself and on outside world. In
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The following essay is based on the excerpts adapted from the author’s most recent book published by the MIT Press Our society is obsessed with intelligence. What it is, what it predicts,
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SHOULD THE WORLD DOSCOUNT NUCLEAR ESCALATION? The world is watching apprehensively how the richest and the second richest countries in the world behave because unless they either fall into the Thucydides Trap
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It is impossible to look away from what the Israeli government is doing to Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. Waves of Israeli aircraft pummel Gaza, destroying
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INTRODUCTION The Global South as a critical concept has three primary definitions. First, it has traditionally been used within intergovernmental development organizations –– primarily those that originated in the Movement Movement ––
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Introduction Throughout history minorities have faced with discrimination discriminations, of different forms, based on language, clans, tribes, and most importantly religion. Intra-religion conflicts have been known throughout history. Famous are the conflicts
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