Socio-Neuro-Biology and Prospects for Our Collective Global Future
The widening range of possibilities for neurochemical enhancement demands accompanying caution in their deployment, commercialisation and regulation.
The Age of Natural Capital, and Why It Must Be Stopped
The processes of financialisation are not necessarily beneficial in utilitarian terms but represent something deeper: the continuation of capitalism as usual.
Asylum with Human Face: Angela Merkel, Reem Sahwil and Another Video-Gone-Viral
Merkel accepts the fact that Germany must become a land of immigration and integration. The rest is up to the democratically elected lawmakers.
Who Matters in World Politics?
One year ago a global cry that ‘Black Lives Matter’ arose in a response to black deaths in the USA. But shouldn’t black lives, not just black deaths, matter?
String of Pearls: India and the Geopolitics of Chinese Foreign Policy
At the cusp of energy security balances the diplomatic battle in the Indian Ocean has generated enough interest for the world to watch the passive stand-offs keenly.
India’s Incremental Balancing in the South China Sea
India’s strategic-military arrangements are implicitly China-centric, and with increasing significance for the balance of power in the South China Sea.
Accountability, Peace, Development and Democracy in Bangladesh
The European Union should promote a dialogue between political forces in Bangladesh that will allow a return to stability and normal democratic means to contest power.
Biodiversity Banking: From Theory to Practice in Sabah, Malaysia
The Malua case shows that analyses of neoliberalisation on the ground can teach us about ways in which neoliberalism plays out in managing societies and environment.
Transboundary Water Governance in the Euphrates Tigris River Basin
One of the biggest challenges now is to establish transboundary water cooperation in the midst of current state of affairs in the Euphrates-Tigris river basin.
Iranian Influence & Advancement in Iraq
Iran’s immense involvement in Iraq is indicative of its historical interest, as well as its wider ambition of being the regional hegemon.
