A quote attributed to Lord Palmerston which states that, "There are no permanent friends or enemies in politics", suggesting fluidity and impermanence appears to hold true for and in the realm of economics and political economy too.

Which way is COVID-19 pushing the world?

Almost in the nature of a brilliant crash course in political theory and philosophy, and of course, a lucidly compact International Relations handbook, whose expansive remit and the premise is to call for restraint in American Foreign Policy and what its author, the eminent Professor John Mearsheimer calls ‘liberal hegemony’, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities’ is the book to read.

The Great Delusion: Liberal dreams and international realities

The ‘Boone City bargain’ and the ‘ Emerald City consensus’- allegorical and metaphorical references to post-Cold War frameworks or bargains- were the defining features of American political life, according to the American scholar of scholars and the writer of writers, Professor Andrew Bacevich in his lucid, eminently readable and very engaging book, ‘ The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered its Post-Cold War Victory’.

The Age of illusions: How America squandered its cold war victory

The world order is in great flux and fluidity. Major geopolitical shifts, redistribution of power and shifts, along with a more unilateralist the United States are all conspiring together to create patterns of the disorder.

In multilateralism, lies the hope of world order, peace and security

Military thinkers, strategists and philosophers have grappled with the issue of war and peace since perhaps time immemorial. One major strand that has emerged from this is the ‘theory of just war’.

There's something fundamentally wrong in positing that war can be just

The concept and reification of culture is like any complex concepts a contested one. But, at the risk of oversimplification, culture may be defined as the institutionalization of quotidian practices of a given people.

Political fate of the world hangs in balance

Foreign policy and its making is sheer and pure craftsmanship. It is either more because, essentially it revolves around power, its exercise and how it relates to interstate relations.

The making of US foreign policy: Problems and challenges

Immigration is a hot and contentious topic in the rich Western world. The multiculturalisation of Western societies has generated and bred fear and anger not only giving ammunition to populists of assorted types but also changing the political dynamics and colouration of many of these societies.

Immigration panic in the western countries revolves around identity and jobs

The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman famously wrote a book, ‘The Lexus and the Olive Tree’ in the concluding years of the 20th century. In Friedman’s formulation, Lexus stood as a metaphor for modernity(globalisation) and the olive tree one for tradition.

Blog: The tension between modernity and tradition is real

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the entity known as the West, essentially in the nature of a loose grouping of political, social and philosophical ideas reified coincidentally by a certain people inhabiting a certain part of the world, has reigned supreme.

Is individualism the secret of the West’s success?

Lockdowns and, in some regions of the world, quarantines have become a feature of life in a COVID 19 stricken world. One consequence, among others, has been working and/or studying from home through the facility of the internet and other forms of technology.

COVID-19 will change the nature of work and delivery of education. Here’s how

The fundamental axioms of modernity- the ‘faith’ that equated progress with reason, fetishising it- seem to be questioned by the COVID -19 virus. In the schemata of modernity, the reason was the new deity, worshipping which would lead to historical, political scientific, industrial, technological and social progress.

How coronavirus exposes the fragility of modernity and the vulnerability of mankind

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