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Guest Post: Responding to Deepak Lal
Editor’s Note: A few days ago, I uploaded an essay by economist Deepak Lal on Centre Right India’s “Gyan” page. It is a page on which we feature articles and essays that are likely to stimulate and broaden the horizons of Indian Political Animals. The essay, titled Asia and Western Dominance:...
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The Fall of the West and the Rise of China: The Master Narrative of the 21st Century
Stories detailing the rise of China have dominated the op-ed pages of Western newspapers for the better half of the last decade. But, what is the essence of this rise? What does the rise of China mean for the world and what are the possibilities of its derailment? I shall...
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Carl Schmitt and America’s Liberal Wars
Humanity as such cannot wage war because it has no enemy, at least not on this planet…When a state fights its political enemy in the name of humanity, it is not a a war for the sake of humanity, but a war wherein a particular state seeks to usurp...
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The Face of Contemporary Britain or This is England
As Lord Balfour noted in his introduction to Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution, “[the] whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker; and so sure of their own moderation that they are not dangerously disturbed by the never-ending din of political...