Nepal is undergoing a republican democratic experiment with a harsh political, economic and social legacy. Liberal and democratic aspirations had intensified before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Liberal democracy, thus, began three decades after...
Every society looks for a reliable, mature and protective type of leadership. The leadership circle of the past has guided their country by combining different strategic versions in the Renaissance political environment of the time and situation. In the...
Public policy is an essential policy in the statecraft related to prudent, judicious and timely management of public and international affairs. It is the appropriate policy required under the division of functions of the government that are based on...
I consider the world was in an interregnum from 1990 to 2001. A bipolar world dominated by the West and the Soviet Union ended. A triumph of liberal democracy did not ensure world order. There were disorders at domestic...
Politics around the world suggests two major features: nations either adopt autocratic methods or engage in democratic practices. The foundations of politics start with human nature and the state of nature. Human nature encompasses both positive and negative aspects....
A witness of politics around the world and its carnival poses a pertinent question of why politics has failed or has not. Ben Ansell in a thought-provoking book entitled Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World...
UNDER late capitalism, there is an assault on the working people that is reminiscent of early capitalism and this assault is worldwide, not just in the third world but in the advanced capitalist countries as well. This assault is...
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Alain Touraine, a highly revered French sociologist who died on June 9, was widely recognized for his profound insights and scholarly contributions in the realm of Social Sciences. Touraine's intellectual acumen transcended geographical boundaries, leaving...
Middle Eastern battlegrounds are alive and kicking even though rivals seek to balance contentious relations.
Take efforts by the United Arab Emirates, and more recently Saudi Arabia, to bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in from the cold in a bid...
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Ghosts of Fascism
The long shadow of domestic fascism, defined as a project of racial and cultural cleansing, is with us once again both in North America and abroad. Educators have seen the...
