South Asia was where for decades the “Great Game” in geopolitical rivalry of the two greatest modern empires- Britain and Russia- had dominated international relations. With the advent of Communism in Russia and growing nationalism and pan-Islamism in Afghanistan, Persia, and India, Britain’s imperial standing was under threat. Faced with these problems, some in the…
Chandran Nair, Founder of Hong Kong think tank and CEO of Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) reveal how a belief in the innate superiority of White people in Western culture, once the driving force behind imperialism, is now woven into the very fabric of globalization. Nair’s parents migrated from India and went to Kuala Lumpur…
Remember one of America’s most legendary diplomats, Henry Kissinger, now 99 is still writing books, find the soul in statecraft, profiles, and analyses six extraordinary leaders he has known, – Lee Kuan Yew, Adenauer, Nixon, de Gaulle, Thatcher, and Sadat to draw general lessons about character and intelligence of leaders who are architects to change…
Professor Lynda Gratton‘s thirty years of research into the technological, demographic, cultural, and societal trends that are shaping work and building on what we learned through our experiences of the global pandemic, has presented us with her four-step innovative framework for redesigning work that will help you. Gratton is the global thought-leader on the future…
Lahoud’s The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, its leader, and His Family, reveals the heroic tale of Americans and their work in the region. She pieces together a remarkable insider account of al-Qaeda’s history, based on the writings of bin Laden and his inner circle, and her conclusion…
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Three Women and our most eloquent and faithful chronicler of human desire ( Esquire), Lisa Taddeo’s Ghost Lover is a collection of nine riveting, fearless and ferocious short stories which brings to life the fever of obsession, the blindness of life and the mania of grief, exploring…
Agent Twister is the true story that happened in November 1974, John Stonehouse MP, once a star in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, and a former aviation and telecoms minister has sex betrayal, widespread criminal fraud and is the only known case of a UK minister spying decade-long for a Communist state, went missing in Miami,…
On January 29, 2020, Jay Powell gave the first press conference of his third year as chair of the Federal Reserve, by flipping open a white binder, looking up briefly to welcome the assembled reporters, and then looking down to read his preprepared statement. His demeanour was low key but his message was upbeat: the…
To eradicate extreme poverty there should be a generation of the explosive growth of the sort mustered by Japan, South Korea, and China, and more recently countries like Vietnam and Bangladesh have reached economic escape velocity, In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes as overall poverty has fallen, people live…
Caroline Knowles delves into London’s plutocrat’s paradise with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong, or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey Via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair, and elsewhere. Her walks…