I proceed in four steps.First,I indicate what is to be understood by hierarchy and equality and the different areas in which this understanding can be at play.Second,I highlight that in the current era,it is through t...
How do South Korea's developmental legacies influence its contemporary political economy?The discourse surrounding this question has tended to diverge over the extent to which South Korea's state-led developmental mod...
This is an excellent book.It is analytical,thoughtful,well researched and sensitive to the issues that matter.It is timely in its publication,appearing in a year when the need to understand what drives China,its leade...
The following paper seeks to understand Donald Trump as a“dialectical image”for the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism.Trump’s management style,as described in his Art o f the Deal,combines a fetishizing of en...
Prima facie,the pursuit of national interest stands in contradiction with the rules of global justice.Indeed,the former relies upon selfishness and the maximization of national utility,while the latter presupposes dis...
We live in a world of climate injustice.People in wealthy countries emit large amounts of greenhouse gasses,whose effects will be particularly adverse to people in poor countries who have not received the benefits of ...
The paper examines the intersection of technological design of Social Media communication,the notion of post-politics-affective turn in contemporary (Western)societies and the rise of populism as a trend in political ...
Here I will examine the resemblances and similarities between Plato and two other personages, Confucius and the Buddha, who were his near-contempo- raries, and who enabled a breakthrough. The Platonic break with the w...
While the existing literature suggests political liberalization enhances the freedom of foreign direct investment (FDI), the observation that some countries with more liberal political regimes have more restrictive ...
Following the events of 1989, many Western social scientists repeatedly predicted the impending death of China's one-party regime and devoted themselves to interpreting the coming regime change in China. As this even...