Category: OPINION

Viewpoint by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev The author, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, is Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan and Head of the Secretariat of the Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. This opinion article first appeared on The Astana Times on October 5, 2018, and is being reproduced courtesy the prestigious Kazakh […]

Viewpoint by Michele Nobile* This is the third of a four-part series. Click here for Part 1 and Part 2. ROME (IDN) – One of the collective ideological hallucinations of the 20h century was Mao Zedong Thought. A remarkable thought in terms of metaphors and similitudes but even more so in terms of incoherence: as […]

Viewpoint by Pulkit Mohan India’s challenge in asserting its stance on global nuclear disarmament requires a precise articulation of its goals and plans, writes Pulkit Mohan, a Research Intern at India’s prestigious Observer Research Foundation. The article first appeared on 28 September 2018, and is being reproduced courtesy the Foundation. NEW DELHI (IDN-INPS) – For […]

Viewpoint by Michele Nobile* This is the second of a four-part series. Click here for Part 1 ROME (IDN) – “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is described by the regime in the following terms: “A historic transformation from a highly centralised planned economy to a dynamic socialist market economy has been achieved in China. A basic […]

Viewpoint by Michele Nobile* This is the first of a four-part series. ROME (IDN) – The “peaceful rise” or “peaceful development” of China is one of the most remarkable processes marking the world economy between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries … and perhaps the most important. Over four decades of the era of economic reforms, […]

Viewpoint by Dokku Nagamalleswara Rao & Atmaja Gohain Baruah Dokku Nagamalleswara Rao and Atmaja Gohain Baruah are research scholars at the Center for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi India. This article first appeared in East-West Forum on 25 September 2018. – The Editor. NEW DELHI (IDN-INPS) – The environmental impact of […]

Viewpoint by LI Yong and Hongjoo Hahm LI Yong is the Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Hongjoo Hahm, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). BAGKOK (IDN) – The business case for making our economy more sustainable is clear. Globally, transitioning […]

Viewpoint by David Suttie* ROME (IDN) – Rural people often migrate seasonally with their herds, or to join the harvest in other districts. They frequently travel to towns and cities to trade, do temporary jobs, or advance their education. In some regions of the world, nomadic cultures are commonplace. Migration is one of the most […]

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – From the time of its beginning as a nation state “Brazil has been a paradise for some, an endless hell for others, and for the rest, a kind of purgatory on earth.” So write two Brazilian historians, Lilla Schwarcz and Heloisa Starling, in their massive, newly published, […]

Viewpoint by Kairat Abdrakhmanov Following are extensive excerpts from the statement by Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the High-level Meeting of the UN Security Council on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Non-proliferation of WMD” on 26 September 2018 in New York. NEW YORK (IDN) – Countering the […]