The Complex Dance of US-China Diplomacy

The Complex Dance of US-China Diplomacy

This article is all about the complex dance of China diplomacy in the current age of the world system Let’s begin with the, increased diplomatic engagement between the US and China has helped to bring down the temperature in their fraught relationship. But it has not yielded any agreement on the key issues that divide … Read more

What is Capitalism – Decoding the Logic of Capitalism

What is Capitalism

Poverty amid plenty and joyless affluence are but symptoms of a profound disorder. Tibor Scitovsky Capitalism, in its classical laissez-faire sense, does not exist anywhere. has been modified over the centuries. Governments have intervened extensively to correct some of its deficiencies and to offset, at least partly, some of its adverse effects on equity. Nevertheless, … Read more

what is secularism?

what is secularism?

The Enlightenment repudiation of religious ideas engendered, in the social sciences, the attempt to explain individual and social behavior by analogy with the principles of Newtonian physics. Human actions were also, as La Mettrie observed, wholly due to physical or chemical causes and processes. Positivism, which denied the existence or intelligibility of forces or substances … Read more

The Diversity of Feminist Thinking

The Diversity of Feminist Thinking

Since writing my first introduction to feminist thought nearly two decades ago, I have become increasingly convinced that feminist thought resists categorization into tidy schools of thought. Interdisciplinary, intersectional, and interlocking are the kinds of adjectives that best describe the way we feminists think. There is a certain breathlessness in the way we move from … Read more

Puzzled in US Individuals

Puzzled in US Individuals

Decades ago, one of my paternal uncles, who is a US citizen, told me that whenever news of Israeli attacks against Palestinians begins to dominate the general discourse, American television networks unleash a series of big-budgeted soap operas. Puzzled in US Individuals He said this in 1982 when I was just 15. But I remember … Read more

CASE STUDIES

THE CASE STUDIES

Geographically  I can draw no commonality between the Philippines and Pakistan as the former is an island country located in the western Pacific with over 7,000 islands to protect as its archipelago. There are three main island groups of the Philippines — Luzon in the north occupied by the Tagalog-speaking people whose roots go back … Read more

Privatization: The Solution

Privatization: The Solution

Privatization According to the research of the read clock on the issue of the economy of Pakistan. Those opposed to the privatization of PIA are casting aspersions that the privatization minister and the caretaker government have some hidden agenda for PIA’s privatization. What agenda can they have? Let’s review some numbers. There are five airlines … Read more

Inflation and Debt

THE CASE STUDIES

Inflation and Debt Assuming a three per cent interest rate, a 2pc insurance cost and a 20-year payback period, annual payments come to $530 million. The question our government must ask is: can we afford such an expenditure in foreign currency at this time? Should we not consider a cheaper solution of buying a new … Read more