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Ukraine

Peace Gamble

The second inauguration of Donald Trump has brought with it a dramatic shift in American rhetoric on the war in Ukraine.

World Government~I

Despite the Russia-Ukraine War that has been raging for 16 months now, one can say that compared to the previous centuries, the present century has so far been relatively peaceful, though fundamentalist forces threaten to tear this peace asunder. One reason for this is the advent of democracy in different parts of the world, and as Amartya Sen had said, democracies rarely, if at all, fight each other. Emergence of nation states in the nineteenth century may have played a part in this when they started replacing empires, kingdoms and city-states

Wars of plunder

he international system, constructed following the Second World War, is almost unrecognizable. New geopolitical realities demand new structures of global governance and a new economy for many which will provide a greater voice for developing and emerging countries. But it remains a work in progress thanks to US intransigence. The US record of being on the wrong side of history is unparalleled