Author: admin
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The Escape From Balance Sheet Recession And The QE Trap
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adminDebt-reduction, if done too aggressively and widely, is the source of economic malaise. This has been the case in Japan since 1989, resulting in what Richard Koo, an HK economist based in Tokyo, called “balance sheet recession.” In a sense, it is an attempt to overcome the glut of any…
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The Paradox of Power
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adminWhat do you do when two or more countries, guided by all the technical advances of the 21st century, keep getting stronger, not separately, but concurrently ? US, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, and even Singapore, have all added more strength to their offensive and defense equipment. One particular relationship…
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Strong Borders Secure Nation
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adminChina isn’t necessarily a country, Lucian Pye at MIT once said, it is a “civilization pretending to be a state.” Like all civilizations, it must have had its fair share of violence; not unlike AmericaUnited Kingdomor for that matter, France. But M. Taylor Fravel, who is also at MIT, noticed…
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Fire On The Water
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adminThe future of the Pacific rests on China’s behavior in South China and East China Sea. Since intentions do change, and on most cases are hard to discern, Robert Haddick is of the view that the US needs to get ready to face China head on. By 2010, China had…
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Being In The World
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adminProfessor Fred Dallmayr is a peace scholar in the absolute sense. He believes in the value of democracy, and concurrently the utility of what he calls “dialogic cosmopolitanism.” The latter may sound like a mouthful, but it is actually a war cry, if one may leverage exclusively on the passion…
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Blink
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adminMalcolm Gladwell is a famous author who can literally get away with murder. How? Well, he can write on the flimsiest subjects, such as how the mind works in a snap of less than 2 seconds and gain immediate renown the world over. “Blink,” is how the mind, operating in…
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Liberal Leviathan
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adminFollowing the English School of International Relations pioneered by the late Hedley Bull, indeed, the late Stanley Hoffman at Harvard University, too, G. John Ikenberry argued that rules and regulations are critical to the viability of an international order. Without them, no amount of force could compel the two hundred…
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The Ideas That Conquered The World
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adminMichael Mandelbaum, a seasoned political analyst and professor at Johns Hopkins University, is a prolific author. He has produced numerous books of immense import. This is one of them, to say the least. “The Ideas That Conquered the World,” isn’t written from the post-modern or constructive perspective. He actually mapped…
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A Contest For Supremacy
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adminLike “Game of Thrones,” scholars and analysts alike have spoken of the spectre of a Sino-US confrontation. This book falls in this genre but with a twist: it tries to explain why and when China will begin its assault of those with which the US prides itself on in Asia.…
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The Last Warrior
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adminThe name Andrew Marshall is often spoken, either quietly or openly, with awe. He is one of the few Americans to have served more than eight Presidents and fifteen Secretaries of Defense, going back to as early as the 1950s after the end of the Second World War. But his…