AEI's Sadanand Dhume on the communist legacy in India Indira: The XX factor Her own party projects her as a messiah of the poor, while the Opposition gleefully reduces her to a ruthless architect of the Emergency, but neither does justice to the unique trail that Indira Gandhi blazed in the political firmament. A complex figure, she happened to live and rule at a time of great change. Read more » Communism's long shadow over India Sadanand Dhume | The Wall Street Journal Report: India's dodgy pharmaceutical industry Roger Bate | AEI Nehru, The Patron Saint Of Soviet Sexual Liberation?
by Michael S. Bernstam via The Wire In the early 1950s, urban social life in the Soviet Union was constrained, with few opportunities for young people to meet and date. But that changed after Jawaharlal Nehru’s visit in 1955.
Azerbaijan starts the Silk Road of Iron Rails. @elinsuleymanov.
The BTK rail line, which extends from the bank of the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan to the capital city of Georgia before carrying on to Turkey, where it feeds into the broader Turkish rail system to Europe beyond, was first envisioned in 1993 after an existing railway that went to Baku via Armenia was shut down due to the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict. However, decisive action wasn’t taken until 2007, when the leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey met in Tbilisi and signed an agreement to make it a reality. Ten years later, the 846-kilometer long trade route has been commissioned and the first train is rumbling down its tracks as this is being written. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/10/30/new-silk-road-azerbaijan-georgia-and-turkey-unite-over-new-rail-line-armenia-further-isolated/#279e53793aff
The Mohammad Code
By Jonathan Zartman, Small Wars Journal: “To understand the thinking of radical Islamic militants like Osama bin laden and Daesh leader al-Baghdadi. Bloom logically takes great pains to trace the historical development of this form of thinking, using the orthodox literature of leading Islamic historians and jurists, because militants like bin Laden and al-Baghdadi claim these sources for their program and methods ... ”
New Zealand politics: The country’s change of government is another nail in the coffin of the TPP-11 revival and sets new boundaries for multilateral trade in the Asia-Pacific region, Giovanni Di Lieto writes. The previous conservative government was firmly set alongside Japan and Australia in trying to revive the so-called TPP-11, hoping to keep the door open for the US at a later time by not changing the terms negotiated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement before Washington’s notorious withdrawal. The leader of the moderately populist New Zealand First political party, Winston Peters, has announced that he will back the Labour-Green bloc to form a coalition government, making the Labour Party’s leader, Jacinda Ardern, the country’s youngest-ever prime minister. Ardern, 37, is replacing incumbent National Party PM Bill English thanks to an exhilarating campaign run on a platform of political rejuvenation after nearly a decade of conservative rule. READ THE STORY HERE
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