Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165304
R. Verma
ABSTRACT This article argues that the Modi government in India is reluctant to publicly condemn Russia for invading Ukraine because it believes Russia can play an important role in meeting/enhancing India’s security. India is hugely dependent on Russian arms and Moscow is willing to provide advanced military equipment, transfer technology, and partake in co-production and co-development of weapon systems, which other countries are unwilling to do. Moreover, in India’s strategic calculus, non-condemnation of Russia will strengthen India–Russia bilateral ties and reduce India’s insecurity by preventing Moscow from establishing stronger relations with China and Pakistan, which are threats to India’s national security and territorial integrity and sovereignty.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165309
A. Shukla
India is now in charge of the G-20, a group of governments from 20 of the world’s largest economies. The theme of India’s G20 Presidency is Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam , which means ‘The World is One Family’. The phrase comes from the Maha Upanishad , an old Sanskrit text. The main idea of the theme is that all life, including humans, animals, plants, and even microorganisms, has value and is connected on Earth and in the wider universe. It is
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2166223
J. Mackenzie
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2166220
D. McDougall
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165300
A. Laha
ABSTRACT This article presents an overview of the transition of economic agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which has been in power in India since 2014. This economic policy is often criticised for lack of a worldview of economic realities. This article seeks to draw lessons from Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in the shaping of a theoretical foundation for the economic agenda of the BJP. It critically analyses how the principles of SSE identify with the ideological currents of the BJP’s economic agenda in relation to the recognition of the third sector, cooperation, governance principles and edifying values.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165303
James Chin
ABSTRACT The 15th Malaysian General Elections (GE15), the first since the Covid pandemic lockdown, were supposed to bring back political stability, after three different prime ministers since 2018. The results were inconclusive with no single coalition winning the bare minimum to form a government. The King then asked Anwar Ibrahim to form a new government. The biggest surprise was the rise of Parti Islam Malaysia (PAS), which became the single largest party in Parliament. Another surprise was UMNO supporting Anwar to be prime minister. The role played by the King and the Malay rulers raised questions about the state of constitutional monarchy in Malaysia. PAS’s victory will have a profound impact on Malaysia’s reputation as a moderate Islamic country and will accelerate the trend towards Islamic identity politics.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2166743
V. Iyer
Race relations in Malaysia – and the same goes for relations between religious groups – have raised perennial challenges for politicians, community leaders, policy-makers, and even judges. The same can be said, at least when it comes to matters of race, for the United States. Finding solutions to flashpoint issues has become particularly burdensome in recent years given that political polarisation and the rise of fundamentalist attitudes have shown a markedly upward trend in both countries. This book, based on papers presented at an international conference organised under the auspices of the Malaysian Association for American Studies (MAAS), attempts to identify and dissect some of the key factors relevant to an understanding of the problem. The eight substantive papers deal with, respectively: the role of the judiciary in protecting racial and religious minorities; understanding ethnicity in the context of culturally diverse societies; the integration of Asian immigrants in the United States; the management of ethnic and religious diversity in Malaysia; national security and governance implications of ethnic and religious divisions in the American population; the management of peace, inter-ethnic harmony and religious diversity in Malaysia; the promotion of stability and peace in American society; and the impact of globalisation on religious and cultural diversity, with particular emphasis on US-Malaysia co-operation in combating terrorism in Southeast Asia. There is also a useful summing up, by Professor K.S. Nathan, the current President of MAAS and a leading international relations expert in his own right, of the difficult and uncomfortable questions which need to be tackled in this increasingly fraught debate. One of those questions which Nathan does not shy away from raising is: ‘Can religious identity be harmonized with the requirements of being a global citizen?’ (p. 173). By itself, this may not seem to be a particularly controversial or provocative question, but he discusses it in the context of Malaysia where, as he notes, ‘there is a degree of ambivalence’ [p. 173] in the matter. His anxieties are based on certain ground realities:
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165752
Tavis D. Jules, R. Arnold, Abigail Smith
ABSTRACT This article explores the evolving relationship between China and CARICOM countries. It discusses how China has been using regional soft power to influence educational mobility. It speaks to the tensions inherent in debt diplomacy and educational mobility as economic and political regional integration (Caribbean exceptionalism) is engendered. As China pursues bilateral relations under South-South Cooperation rather than multilateral relations through CARICOM, we argue that China uses soft power through infrastructural loans and scholarships to influence regional educational policy. It concludes by suggesting that a common bilateral China-CARICOM policy of economic and political engagement is preferable for all CARICOM states.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165306
Rupakjyoti Borah
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2166218
D. McDougall
railways. Perry examines these phenomena in contrasting properties such as Danson Park in Bexleyheath in London and the grandiloquent Harewood in Yorkshire. She also closely examines the slavery connections of Bath and the remarkable relationship with the Wye valley of the estate at Piercefield, Monmouthshire. Another of her ‘tainted landscapes’ as she calls them, is around Penrhyn Castle in North Wales. After these illuminatingly detailed chapters, she moves on to a relatively swift examination of some more ‘remote’ locations in the Lake District and Scotland. A notable characteristic of Perry’s work, as she follows these developments through many English, Welsh and Scottish country estates, is to link them to literary expressions in prose and poetry, to furniture and decorative styles (for example, in the use of the opulent tropical hard wood mahogany in doors and panelling) and even, in passing ways, to cuisine and diet. As an architect herself, she is strongly influenced by the contexts and framing of structures. This all makes for an impressive, highly readable, and beautifully illustrated book. It therefore may seem a little carping to indicate that if this reviewer has any criticism at all, it is that the material on Scotland, for example, is relatively so slight and, for the unwary reader, not always accurate. For example, she seems to give the (perhaps unintended) impression that Port Glasgow is equivalent to the port of Glasgow, two very different locations. The entire area of the remarkable ‘Merchant City’ in Glasgow, to the west of the city’s original medieval heartland (now largely destroyed apart from the cathedral), is every bit as much as Bath almost entirely based on the Atlantic trades. Moreover, her geographical focus is restricted to the west and the fact is that there are equally many examples of slave money that went into buildings, estates and landscapes in eastern Scotland. Some of these are familiar to me. She mentions the amazingly valuable Royal Holloway slavery compensation data base, but it does lie somewhat outside her period. If we carry the story forward, therefore, it becomes obvious that the extraordinary amounts of money that slave owners received from government for the liberation of their slaves was another massive way in which extensive funds were fed into country houses, landscapes and environmental developments. But that perhaps should be the subject of another book.
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