Global Politics
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Theorizing Chinese Investment In Peripheral & Semi-Peripheral Nation States
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The rise and fall of powers is founded in their economic influence, which is furthered by strategic and diplomatic capabilities. The People’s Republic of China has proliferated an aggressive diplomatic endeavour across the globe through supply-chain penetration and investment. A stark example of the same is the Belt and Road Initiative, the responses to which…
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Xi Jinping’s Egalitarian Education Reform
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Wealth inequality is a serious issue in China. According to data published by Shijiazhuang University of Economics, the top 20 percent of the population earns roughly 30 times more than the bottom 20 percent (Jia Hua, Qingxia, Mengnan Zhang, 2015), and the first month Covid-19 lockdown caused low-skill migrant workers’ income to lose 100 billion…
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A Renewed Space: Rural Communities and the Countryside
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21st Century political wisdom has been invested in a city-based future for most of the world. City-life is seen as the future of the world. Paul Collier in 2010 espoused that ‘as populations grow and the Southern climate deteriorates due to global warming, the South will necessarily urbanize. The future of populations will live not…
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The Taliban Takeover: Implications for South Asian Security
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The Taliban regime recently announced the formation of a caretaker government in Afghanistan. It has since gained notoriety for its inclusion of terrorists wanted by America and exclusion of ethnic minorities and women. The US expressed strong condemnations over the move. But at the same time, it and other countries in the West and beyond…
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The Real Pandemic: Strawmen & Worsening Sino-Western Relations
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Edward Ludwick defined Great Power Autism as the “lack of situational awareness of the world around them (in large countries) natural in small countries of equal advancement.” This condition seems to have not only taken a firmer hold in both China and the U.S. since the Trump administration, but has infected middle powers like Canada…
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Identity Crisis under the Big Tent: Canada’s Conservative Party in Turmoil
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In 2013, prominent Canadian political commentators John Ibbitson and Darryl Bricker famously declared the end of the Liberal Party’s dominance over Canadian politics through the collapse of its coalition, the “Laurentian Consensus.” In its place, they heralded an era defined by a new Conservative coalition that would grow in strength over the coming years. Yet,…
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How the Eurozone’s History Undermined its Response to COVID-19
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As of this moment, Europe has over 181 million confirmed cases of the novel COVID-19 virus, and over 3.91 million deaths. Amid the coronavirus-induced panic-selloff in global equities in March of 2020, regional benchmarks like the DAX lost over half a decades-worth of gains in a month. Markit PMI for the same month printed record-breaking…
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Safeguarding Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
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“Afghan women are America’s (and the world’s) staunchest allies in creating a stronger, more secure Afghanistan”, wrote a recent CNN commentary. Yet, America seems to be abandoning them amidst its urgency to exit the country. While it cannot be refuted that the spate of events may not portend well for women, what is more discouraging…
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The G7 Summit is vital, but not yet enough
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Being held in-person for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19, the most recent G7 summit is highly praised thanks to its comprehensive agenda which covers most of pressing issues for Western countries. Indeed, this summit is vital for the Group of Seven and the West in general to reform their plagued system. Nonetheless,…
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The Politics of Place – Why Proximity Makes Progressives
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Across cultures and times, areas of higher population density have been associated with more culturally progressive attitudes. Consider also that a good estimate of the strength of support for Left-leaning parties throughout a democratic country can be made using only a satellite photograph of the nation at night-– with brighter areas, indicating greater population density,…