Commonwealth
Opinion
How India is Changing Under Modi
By Professor James Manor ‘Extravagant new promises can buy him time, but far from solving the problem, they compound the risk.’ ‘His main alternative is to stress not aspirations, but resentments.’ ‘He has already de-emphasised aspirational appeals: Nothing has...
South Africa’s Election leaves the country stirred, not shaken
Martin Plaut Senior Research Fellow - ICWS It was a remarkable achievement. South Africa’s sixth election since the end of apartheid saw nearly 17.7 million people vote at 22,924 voting stations.They had a choice of 48 parties who were attempting to get into the...
It’s a century since an international civil service came into being. Why it matters
By Henning Melber This year marks a century since a formal international civil service was introduced into the world. The first time this particular breed of professionals came into existence was at the signing of the Versailles Peace Conference during 1919...
We are all Sri Lankans now
By Syed Badrul Ahsan Terrorism is not dead. The purveyors of terror are yet around. That is the lesson coming out of the eight explosions which rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. With close to 300 people dead and hundreds of others wounded, one is quite certain that...
A Way Forward for Eritrea
By Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies On 24 and 25 April 2019 a conference at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) brought scholars and activists from around the world to discuss the future of Eritrea. Around 70 people...
ICWS@70 – A Real Birthday!
By Dr Sue Onslow - Deputy Director of The Institute of Commonwealth Studies This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and - unlike the more dubious claims and convenient myths of the modern Commonwealth dating from...
The 2019 Indian Elections: is the media complicit or controlled?
Up to 900 million eligible voters in India will go to the polls in April and May. Historically largely well informed, thanks to government and policy discussions in the media before general elections, Indians have been able to vote out incompetent or corrupt governments. But things are looking different this time, explains Dr Kiran Hassan, associate fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
India & the Media
Remarks made by Professor James Manor, former Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, as part of this panel, prompted the following discussion: On Wednesday, February 20, 2019, James Elliott wrote Subject: BBC and other media coverage of India Dear James,...
The Rohingya issue: Bangladesh’s burden
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and Editor in Charge, The Asian Age, Dhaka For Bangladesh, it is that old dilemma: damned if you do, damned if you don’t. The Rohingya issue is not likely to go away any time soon. A hint of that...
“Hands Off Africa” Marking the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference in Accra in 1958
December 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, between 5 and 13 December 1958. Under the slogan ‘Hands off Africa!!’, the AAPC was a watershed moment in the history of Africa’s liberation from...
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