Making and breaking social capital: The paradox of China’s social credit system
The Chinese government is engaged in a major mass-surveillance initiative, to become fully operational by the year 2020. It has been subject to varied...
All too meteoric: The Korean peace initiative and its failure
It became all too meteoric. First, the North Korean missile test on 27 November 2017, proving in theory, that Pyongyang could nuke Washington, DC...
A Chinese Solution for North Korea?
In symbolic terms as well as in concrete outcome – the Korean summit, the first in 11 years, positively surprises. All the more in...
Digitalisation of the media in Africa: Prospects for change
Global media has become increasingly digitalised in recent years. These processes have had a detrimental impact on the traditional business models of commercial journalism,...
Is the WTO relevant for India?
Pressure on less developed countries from an increasingly belligerent US has caused the recent WTO gathering in Buenos Aires to end in an impasse. The...
China’s economic transformation
At the end of 1976, China was, by and large, an agricultural country with a hefty 82.6% of its population living in the countryside,...
India and Japan renew bilateral relations
The Indian bullet train project is underway after a historic agreement between Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe during the Japanese prime minister’s recent visit...
Lessons from the BRICS: India and China push solar diplomacy
The recent BRICS meeting, coming on the heels of the Dokhlam standoff, brought the Indian prime minister Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinjping together...
Branding exercises and corporate governance: Lessons for Indian universities
This article explores the importance of branding for high-level educational institutions, particularly newer players in the Indian educational context. Preceding this in terms of...
Decoding the co-existence of growth and governance: The case of India
Good governance is at the core of improving economic growth in a country, as it provides a mechanism for linking inclusion, decision making, accountability,...