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The Entanglement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Contemporary Art
Read more: The Entanglement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Contemporary ArtThis article will investigate the tense relationship between copyright law and various forms of art, focusing on the points of conflicts and the jurisdictional inconsistencies in protecting contemporary art. In addition, we shall also understand the essence of ‘originality’ in artworks and the recognition given to the works reproduced.
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Tit for Tat: How India counters Chinese Lending in South Asia
Read more: Tit for Tat: How India counters Chinese Lending in South AsiaThe recent development lending undertaken by the Indian government has sparked a conversation around the India-China relationship and whether such lending is retaliation to counter the aggressive Chinese lending in South Asia. This article aims to provide the geopolitical implications of such acts and examine the threats and opportunities that it entails.
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Polar Arsenals: The Militarisation of the Arctic
Read more: Polar Arsenals: The Militarisation of the ArcticAs melting ice caps make the Arctic ever more accessible to human settlement and inhabitation, the region is becoming a significant arena of geopolitical competition. This article examines the importance of the Arctic to the international economic and security framework and recent trends in militarisation in the region.
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Is Latin America headed towards a Recession? Is there room for long-term Growth?
Read more: Is Latin America headed towards a Recession? Is there room for long-term Growth?Putin’s war in Ukraine has disrupted supply chains all over the world. Add to that rising geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, as well as rising inflation, and you have the perfect recipe for a recession. Beyond these shocks, however, opportunities for realizing long-term economic goals still persist in Latin America. This column…
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Notes from Nauru: Tracing the Economic Collapse of the Island Nation
Read more: Notes from Nauru: Tracing the Economic Collapse of the Island NationStarting with the inflationary impacts of the expansionary fiscal and monetary policy followed by the war in Ukraine, 2022 could be largely summarised into four words: war, recession, inflation, and energy crisis. And as we enter another year of uncertainty, fears – particularly those of a slowing global economy – seem unavoidable. As policymakers use…
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Unchained Sun: Japan’s New National Security Strategy
Read more: Unchained Sun: Japan’s New National Security StrategyJapan’s new National Security Strategy has taken its military spending to unprecedented levels. This marks a drastic departure from historical precedent, and has major implications for Indo Pacific security. This article will examine the historical development of the Japanese Self Defence Forces and the diplomatic and military measures outlined in the new NSS.
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The Narratives of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing a Wholesome Economy
Read more: The Narratives of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing a Wholesome EconomyIPR refers to the legal rights granted to the inventor or creator to safeguard his innovation or creativity for a specified length of time. These legal rights grant the inventor/creator or his assignee the exclusive right to fully employ his invention/creation for a specified length of time. heir economic returns are contingent upon the expenses…
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Sports and Soft Power: Qatar Diplomacy in light of Football World Cup
Read more: Sports and Soft Power: Qatar Diplomacy in light of Football World CupCountries have used sports to assert dominance and mark their presence for centuries. This article explores the role of football in improving or deteriorating diplomatic relations between nations and how Qatar used the FIFA world cup to become more relevant and assert its soft power, and how impactful is sports diplomacy.
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Brace for Impact: Europe’s Upcoming Recession
Read more: Brace for Impact: Europe’s Upcoming RecessionEurope is heading for a recession. With sky-high energy prices, a surging dollar, and China’s slowdown, most economists have now begun to discuss the severity of the recession and what it would entail. On that front, this article takes a hypothetical trajectory and predicts three possible scenarios that might pan out for Europe in the…
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The IRGC Strikes Back: Iranian Involvement in the Ukraine War
Read more: The IRGC Strikes Back: Iranian Involvement in the Ukraine WarIran is one of Russia’s principal foreign allies in the ongoing Ukrainian war. By supplying weapons to Russia, Iran has to an extent reversed the traditional client-patron relationship between Western and Middle-Eastern states and opened a new frontier in its proxy conflict with the United States. This article examines the background of the Russia-Iran alliance,…
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The Relevance of Central Bank Digital Currencies in Geopolitics
Read more: The Relevance of Central Bank Digital Currencies in GeopoliticsAbstract Putin’s war in Ukraine has disrupted numerous supply chains and worsened the global economy. The geopolitical tensions have triggered a race among nations to launch an unusual innovation that may have the potential to disrupt the global financial system: central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This column explores the geopolitical role of central bank digital…
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Whither the Left?
Read more: Whither the Left?In an era where the discourse around a global rightward tilt of democracies is done to death, the Left has made some admirable comebacks from South America to Western Europe. Yet the South Asian left has been conspicuously absent when it comes to any sign of a revival on a political front. The absence is…
