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China Daily, August 7, 2017. Tim Beal is a retired New Zealand academic who has written extensively on Asia with a special focus on the Korean Peninsula. Recent publications include the entry on Korea for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (New York: Springer, 2019). He has also written some chapters for a forthcoming collection: Immanuel Ness and Stuart Davis, eds., Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (Leiden: Brill, 2021). He is very grateful for the unstinting assistance of Ankie Hoogvelt and Gregory Elich in provid...

Time has come UN, world powers intervene in Kashmir to restore peace in South Asia and Afghanistan Ghulam Nabi Fai   | 16.03.2021 WASHINGTON  The Kashmir question is one of the oldest unresolved international problems in the world. The experience of nearly seven decades has shown that it will not go away and that an effort is urgently required to resolve it on a durable basis. "Durable" in this context is synonymous with "equitable." It is imperative, whatever be the rights and wrongs in the equation as far as arguments go, real population...

https://www.nysun.com/national/what-fate-awaits-bidens-one-year-child-tax-credit/91449/ No sooner had the ink dried on the American Rescue Plan Act signed into law by President Biden than calls began to make permanent the expanded child tax credit that the law provides as a one-year emergency measure for 2021. “Democratic leaders are banking on some of the aid provisions being so popular that letting them expire would be a political nightmare, painful enough for Americans that even Republicans couldn’t stand in the way. At the top of the list is making permanent the expanded child tax credi...

Pakistan Debt Crisis Intensifies as Economic Mismanagement Continues Unabated Pakistan’s public debt went past 87% of GDP at the end of 2019-20, up from about 72% of GDP at the end of 2017-18, forcing the government to borrow afresh to pay old loans. A trader counts Pakistani rupee notes at a currency exchange booth in Peshawar. Photo: REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz/File Photo Last month, Malaysian authorities seized a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 plane, with passengers still on board, at Kuala Lumpur airport for not paying leasing fees worth $15 million. The embarrassing incident bec...

Sociology of the Siege January 20, 2021 Since the January 6 Assault on Capitol Hill, scholars, reporters, and politicians have tried to make sense of the violent insurrection. Many draw from fundamental sociological lessons to make sense of violence, place it in historical context, and help readers navigate the ongoing political turmoil. (A collection of posts from recent years on Contexts captures this potential.)  Sociology offers theories and methodologies that are useful in analyzing violent political events like the Trump insurrection. The following paragraphs draw on classi...