The China Model: a Civilizational-State Perspective
By Zhang Weiwei
China’s dramatic rise should be understood in the context of China as a civilizational state, i.e. an amalgam of the world’s oldest...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
Russia from the Fur Trade to Carbon Aristocracy
By Alexander Etkind
Russia’s geographical space was largely shaped by the fur trade. Oil and gas have been found in those very spaces that the...
Reshaping Tomorrow: What will India look like in 2025?
By Ejaz Ghani
What will India and the rest of South Asia look like in 2025? The optimistic view is that India will achieve double-digit...
ExecuJet Aviation Group meeting the development demands in Africa
By ExecuJet Aviation Group
Operating in an environment in which Africa is still recovering from the global recession, ExecuJet have a crucial role to play...
African Lions in the Making
By Nicolas Depetris Chauvin
Growth without structural transformation has proved to be unsustainable. Africa needs to diversify their economies if they want to become authentic...
Winning the Talent War in Emerging Markets: Women are the Answer
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid
As global companies try to harness the growth and possibilities of emerging markets, the extraordinary energy, ambition and...
Neoliberal Globalization, Masculinity and Gender Justice
By Raewyn Connell
A relatively new field of social research has documented the diversity of masculinities in the world. Globalization is not a separate issue...
The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing are ...
By Jeremy Rifkin
Our industrial civilization is at a crossroads. Oil and the other fossil fuel energies that make up the industrial way of life...
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...
