Racial Inequalities and the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence has been accumulating about its disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic...
Closing the Gap: What Will it Take for the UK to be a “Double...
By Christina Palmou
The pandemic has brought into sharper focus the unequal opportunities at work for men and women. Policy, management practices and a structural...
British Imperialism, Religion, and the Politics of ‘Divide and Rule’ in the Indian-Subcontinent
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
Recently India’s Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi again brought the issues of India’s partition and tried to blame it on...
TIAFI Community Centre Helps Syrian Refugees Rebuild Their Lives in Turkey’s Izmir
By Katarzyna Rybarczyk
Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, is home to around 200,000 Syrian refugees. For years they have been trying to adapt and integrate...
Connectivity, Connectivity, Connectivity: Has the China-Europe Freight Train Become a Winning Run?
By Xiangming Chen
In “China and Europe: Reconnecting across a New Silk Road” (Xiangming Chen and Julie Mardeusz ’16, The European Financial Review, February/March 2015),...
Philippine 2022 Election Amid Elevated US-China Tensions
By Dan Steinbock
Overshadowed by US-Sino friction and xenophobic rhetoric, the 2022 election campaigns are getting ugly. Old elites hope to derail...
How We Should Talk about Racial Disparities
By Natalie Spievack and Cameron Okeke
Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have emphasized the role of historical and contemporary discrimination in creating and perpetuating disparities...
The ‘Import-Substitution’ Policy in Post-colonial Countries: A Review
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
Post-colonial countries are those who were former colonies, and most of them, except China and those in East Asia, remain...
Central Asia Prepares for Taliban Takeover
By Gavin Helf, Ph.D. and Barmak Pazhwak
As U.S. and NATO forces drew down their military presence in Afghanistan this Summer, the country’s northern neighbors witnessed Taliban fighters...
Britain’s Scramble Out of Kabul; the Moral and Strategic Cost
By Professor Michael Clarke
The process of western withdrawal from Afghanistan in August and the scenes at Kabul airport as western allies were ushered out of the...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
