Gandhi’s influence on modern India and the wider world presents itself as a peculiar political experiment that promises to add to contemporary discourse on Global IR.
Tagore’s ‘Global’ belonging is one that did not need to be facelessly cosmopolitan or draw the global into becoming a battlefield of cultural universals.
Gandhi takes globalisation from the Mahabharata and crafts an entirely new politics, satyagraha, based on ‘disinterested love’, not ‘interested contract’.
Environmental challenges in Iran, like dangerous levels of air pollution in Tabriz, the pollution of the Aras River, and the dying Lake Urmia, make the life of Azerbaijanis even worse.
While the UK and the US South seek to improve understandings of one another’s society and politics, historical attempts have proved fruitless.
The fact that events portrayed in fiction could be so easily and uncritically confused for events that really transpired raises questions.
A new conceptual framework is needed to go beyond interpretative strictures and conventional periodisation.
Under current geopolitical and institutional conditions, a decentralised approach is the most viable path forward for managing opportunities and risks.
London knows the importance of UK-China trade and the need to tilt to the Indo-Pacific, but still struggles to engage with China in a prudent manner.
Populists from the left and from the right created chaos and suffering – while those who improved things gradually, whilst respecting the rules of the game, have done much better.
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