Global Policy & Analysis Think Tank
At the beginning of 2019, Pakistan’s politics was characterised by cautious optimism among those who supported PTI’s historic 2018 electoral victory. There was once a palpable sense of enthusiasm for the new government’s plans to revitalise the economy by courting sustainable investment, reaching agreements to receive loans from key partners […]
All ideologies have the potential to be dangerous and the more complex the ideology, the greater chance there is of a dangerous outcome. This is why Trump’s straightforward belief in himself and in his “America first” slogan is actually far easier to come to grips with than the liberal globalism […]
Dr. M goes for gold Veteran Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has made a speech calling for all of east Asia to begin trading on the basis of a new currency based on a classical gold standard. While Mahathir did not suggest that this currency should be used to settle […]
Political systems that resort to arbitrary rather than evidenced means of measuring success or failure tend to be predisposed to such high levels of failure that one begins to covet arbitrary restrictions on democracy in order to minimise the expected damage that various politicians will inflict on the nation. Nowhere […]
Donald Trump has not made the United States less safe and he has not made the United States less wealthy. The fact is that under Trump there have not been any international terrorist incidents on US soil. Simultaneous to this, while the US economy has since 1971 been dangerously predicated […]
Philippine President Rogrigo Duterte has encouraged the traditionally lethargic and typically useless Philippine Senate to expedite the passage of much needed reforms which will modernise the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into The Philippines. From his earliest days as President, Duterte has been a man who is fully aware […]
Three Pakistani officers and one solider were martyred in a horrific terrorist attack in the Kharqamar region of North Waziristan. This comes not long after a Pakistani soldier in Boya, North Waziristan was martyred after a roadside IED was detonated in a brazen act of unambiguous terrorism. The specific group […]
Although he is likely to win a second term, Donald Trump has already accomplished something that will stand as a benchmark of his future legacy. It was on Trump’s watch that for the first time since the fateful year of 1973 that the United States reclaimed its position as the […]
One of the reasons that Singapore went from a post-colonial third world island to a socio-economic first world country was because under Lee Kuan Yew’s leadership, Singapore concentrated its development strategy on rapid economic growth, high quality education and investing the proceeds of FDI (foreign direct investment) into hard infrastructure. […]
