The writer, a development consultant and public policy expert, writes on policy matters, politics and international affairs. He may be reached at drarifazad@gmail.com.
Trade and investment treaties and national sovereign states
What sets Tunisia apart from the rest of the Arab and African Arab world is an across-the-board commitment to constitution and democracy before and...
Brazil sticks to the Workers Party for the third time because of its consistently high level of public investments in social and pro-poor programmes
The many meanings of Morales’s third electoral success in Bolivia
In the midst of the surging anti-EU tide in the UK, the issue of immigration has generated the most emotive responses
A new found respectability for mobilising and asserting grassroots voice against the odds of out-of-touch political elite and uniform media hostility
The pretext of hammering Hamas every few years is used as a ploy to incrementally advance Israeli long term strategic purposes
Tony Benn, who died on March 14, aged 88, was the most recognisable political face in Great Britain and beyond. In an age when politics-bashing has...
Twentieth century produced three towering figures of known for their fight for racial justice and freedom from white oppression. Nelson Mandela was...
No sooner had the hopes soared for a historic interim deal on the Iranian nuclear programme on November 10 that they were dashed by French...