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INDIA IN THE 21 CENTURY: AN EMERGING GLOBAL POWER?

  Canberra, 21 June 2013   [This is an abridged version of a presentation that I gave to the University of Western Australia in Perth, on 9 May 2013.] Introduction “India is at once a rising power with an expanding middle-class; and a poor, unequal and misgoverned country.” India’s civilisation is one of the oldest […]

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FEW POINTS ABOUT CHINA

06 November 2012 A great deal has been written about the rise of China and what it means for the rest of the world with commentators, strategists and analysts all wanting to outdo each other in predicting on the one end of the spectrum the complete eclipse of the United States and on the other […]

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