In this report we support such bold assertions by analysing Kim Jung Un‟s statements over the past few years, but most specially, from the recent joint meeting between the Workers‟ Party of Korea (WPK) and KPA. Additionally, the report provides a snapshot of the economic developments that have already occurred over the past five years, including “shadow markets” and the introduction of a property market, which the government are actively facilitating.
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"U.S. special operations forces are doing more things in more places than ever before. They are now active in some seventy countries and, since 2001, have seen their combined budget nearly quintuple—a trend that seems likely to continue. As the United States seeks ways to tackle a range of security threats worldwide, shore up the resilience of its friends and allies against terrorist and criminal networks, and minimize need for large-scale military interventions, the importance of special operations forces will grow."
Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
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The consequences of the wrong actions in the right directionSUN&FZ Associates
It is not that those who mattered in corridors of political power were not timely advised to put Pakistan’s derailed political process back on track. It is also not that the so-called establishment did not acknowledge and consider the set of suggestions which were submitted for its consideration and appropriate action. Then what went wrong?
An exclusive political review of excerpts from an article published in the daily Jang Lahore on 18th and 19th April, 1990 and an analysis of what is happening in Pakistan now and how that can be corrected!
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"U.S. special operations forces are doing more things in more places than ever before. They are now active in some seventy countries and, since 2001, have seen their combined budget nearly quintuple—a trend that seems likely to continue. As the United States seeks ways to tackle a range of security threats worldwide, shore up the resilience of its friends and allies against terrorist and criminal networks, and minimize need for large-scale military interventions, the importance of special operations forces will grow."
Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
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It is not that those who mattered in corridors of political power were not timely advised to put Pakistan’s derailed political process back on track. It is also not that the so-called establishment did not acknowledge and consider the set of suggestions which were submitted for its consideration and appropriate action. Then what went wrong?
An exclusive political review of excerpts from an article published in the daily Jang Lahore on 18th and 19th April, 1990 and an analysis of what is happening in Pakistan now and how that can be corrected!
End of the Independent Muslim World?
One subject, four articles (1974, 1980, 1988, 2013) and the conclusion of the analysis of different interconnected perspectives in just one sentence…
As a student of international relations I want to share three published and one unpublished articles, two in Urdu and two in English languages, with my friends and connections.
The first article in Urdu was published in Daily the Mashriq on August 1974 in which I had discussed the possibility of an attempt by former Soviet Union for the redrawing of boundaries between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmania with reference to a book on international politics, Balshaya Sovietskaya Entsaklopedia and Russian geo-politician Mystilawski.
In my second article in Urdu published in Pakistan’s largest circulated weekly magazine Akhbar-e-Jehan in 1980 I had discussed in detail the historical background of former Soviet Union’s attack on Afghanistan, the possibility of attack on post-revolution Iran, the visible geographic hurdles in the way for doing so and the possible consequences of such an act.
In 1988 my article in English published in Daily the Muslim discussed the reasons for former Soviet Union’s retreat from Afghanistan and the possibility of an unending civil war as a consequence of the political vacuum that was clearly anticipated after the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
The fourth article in English, available at my different blogs, was posted on 17th February 2013 discussing the background of the political landscape in the Muslim world and reasons for social and economic unrest and uncertainty which, in present global scenario, apparently do not appear to be unusual to people in general and media in particular.
If I am asked to sum up the ultimate conclusion of these four articles in one sentence, the sentence will be:
“End of Independent Muslim World Will Be Prevented Only By an Unthinkable, Unimaginable and Unbelievable Miracle”
Malala mishap and global media scenario in retrospect taliban and pakistanSUN&FZ Associates
Pakistani Talibans had tried to impose their Nizam-e-Adl in Swat and were thrown out of there proving and conveying clearly and forcefully that their kind of Islam was not acceptable and workable in our country. So as Muslims what are we afraid of?
We have a more secular than a secular government. We have a dedicated Secular Media of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Secular Pakistan. We have an army ready to fight against any attempt to disturb the way we live in this world and the way we believe in the world after. When the Pakistani Talibans have failed in Swat how can they succeed in other parts of the country where we have law enforcing agencies as well as rangers and army cantonment areas? Do we think that a few isolated barbaric incidents can succeed in terrorizing entire population of Pakistan and make them Taliban Branded Shariah Compliant? Can a country that has a brave teen age girl like Malala who has the courage to defy Taliban and carry on her mission be expected to let so-called Pakistani Taliban impose their “Alien to Islam Shariat in a “RELIGIOUS COUNTRY of TRULY MUSLIMS like Pakistan”?
India does not have a national security architecture that addresses these basics. Everything is ad hoc depending on personal whims and fancies.
That is why the incumbent National Security Advisor (NSA) is facing stringent criticism on the Pathankot episode.
It could as well turn out to be a blessing in disguise if out of this morass something good emerges.
Politburo 2.0 works as a network structure. It is an informal agency and there is no formalization of its functions such as general meetings.
Sectoral branches are distributed among its members and they offer their management schemes within their competence.
Considering the necessity of an integral and flexible strategy towards the DPRK’s WMD programs, ant the fact that the proposed end state, to reverse the WMDs programs for 2020, is not achievable for this date, this paper proposes another approach. First, it establishes a realist intermediate end state in 2020 (DPRK accepting the creation of a commission of verification that registers its WMDs capabilities); second, it identifies as the essential precondition - “the main effect,” - to achieve China’s real commitment regarding the coercive measures against North Korea, and the exchange of information about WMDs proliferation with the US; and third, it states some measures intended to achieve the required precondition. For doing so, the actual situation of WMDs in the peninsula is explained, then the challenges for achieving both the end state and the main effect are summarized, and finally, some recommendations for creating the preconditions are asserted.
End of the Independent Muslim World?
One subject, four articles (1974, 1980, 1988, 2013) and the conclusion of the analysis of different interconnected perspectives in just one sentence…
As a student of international relations I want to share three published and one unpublished articles, two in Urdu and two in English languages, with my friends and connections.
The first article in Urdu was published in Daily the Mashriq on August 1974 in which I had discussed the possibility of an attempt by former Soviet Union for the redrawing of boundaries between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmania with reference to a book on international politics, Balshaya Sovietskaya Entsaklopedia and Russian geo-politician Mystilawski.
In my second article in Urdu published in Pakistan’s largest circulated weekly magazine Akhbar-e-Jehan in 1980 I had discussed in detail the historical background of former Soviet Union’s attack on Afghanistan, the possibility of attack on post-revolution Iran, the visible geographic hurdles in the way for doing so and the possible consequences of such an act.
In 1988 my article in English published in Daily the Muslim discussed the reasons for former Soviet Union’s retreat from Afghanistan and the possibility of an unending civil war as a consequence of the political vacuum that was clearly anticipated after the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
The fourth article in English, available at my different blogs, was posted on 17th February 2013 discussing the background of the political landscape in the Muslim world and reasons for social and economic unrest and uncertainty which, in present global scenario, apparently do not appear to be unusual to people in general and media in particular.
If I am asked to sum up the ultimate conclusion of these four articles in one sentence, the sentence will be:
“End of Independent Muslim World Will Be Prevented Only By an Unthinkable, Unimaginable and Unbelievable Miracle”
Malala mishap and global media scenario in retrospect taliban and pakistanSUN&FZ Associates
Pakistani Talibans had tried to impose their Nizam-e-Adl in Swat and were thrown out of there proving and conveying clearly and forcefully that their kind of Islam was not acceptable and workable in our country. So as Muslims what are we afraid of?
We have a more secular than a secular government. We have a dedicated Secular Media of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Secular Pakistan. We have an army ready to fight against any attempt to disturb the way we live in this world and the way we believe in the world after. When the Pakistani Talibans have failed in Swat how can they succeed in other parts of the country where we have law enforcing agencies as well as rangers and army cantonment areas? Do we think that a few isolated barbaric incidents can succeed in terrorizing entire population of Pakistan and make them Taliban Branded Shariah Compliant? Can a country that has a brave teen age girl like Malala who has the courage to defy Taliban and carry on her mission be expected to let so-called Pakistani Taliban impose their “Alien to Islam Shariat in a “RELIGIOUS COUNTRY of TRULY MUSLIMS like Pakistan”?
India does not have a national security architecture that addresses these basics. Everything is ad hoc depending on personal whims and fancies.
That is why the incumbent National Security Advisor (NSA) is facing stringent criticism on the Pathankot episode.
It could as well turn out to be a blessing in disguise if out of this morass something good emerges.
Politburo 2.0 works as a network structure. It is an informal agency and there is no formalization of its functions such as general meetings.
Sectoral branches are distributed among its members and they offer their management schemes within their competence.
Considering the necessity of an integral and flexible strategy towards the DPRK’s WMD programs, ant the fact that the proposed end state, to reverse the WMDs programs for 2020, is not achievable for this date, this paper proposes another approach. First, it establishes a realist intermediate end state in 2020 (DPRK accepting the creation of a commission of verification that registers its WMDs capabilities); second, it identifies as the essential precondition - “the main effect,” - to achieve China’s real commitment regarding the coercive measures against North Korea, and the exchange of information about WMDs proliferation with the US; and third, it states some measures intended to achieve the required precondition. For doing so, the actual situation of WMDs in the peninsula is explained, then the challenges for achieving both the end state and the main effect are summarized, and finally, some recommendations for creating the preconditions are asserted.
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor and Civil-Military Relations in PakistanIndraStra Global
AIDN0020420160052
April 20, 2016
Author: Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf
Cite the Article:
Wolf, SO. "THE PAPER | China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan" IndraStra Global, Vol.002, Issue No: 04, (2016), 0052, http://www.indrastra.com/2016/04/PAPER-CPEC-and-Civil-Military-Relations-in-Pakistan-002-04-2016-0052.html | ISSN 2381-3652
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Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence:
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Mark Koyama
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Chiaki Moriguchi
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Tuan-Hwee Sng
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Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence:
State Building in China and Japan After 1850
Mark Koyama, Chiaki Moriguchi, Tuan-Hwee Sng∗
July 2017
Abstract
We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political
development in China and Japan during the late nineteenth century. The arrival
of Western powers not only brought opportunities to adopt new technologies, but
also fundamentally threatened the sovereignty of both countries. These threats
and opportunities produce an unambiguous impetus toward centralization and
modernization for small states, but place conflicting demands on larger states.
We use our theory to study why China, which had been centralized for much of
its history, experienced gradual disintegration upon the Western arrival, and how
Japan rapidly unified and modernized.
Keywords: China; Japan; Geopolitics; State Capacity; Political Fragmentation; Political
Centralization; Economic Modernization
∗Mark Koyama, Department of Economics, George Mason University. Email: [email protected] Chiaki
Moriguchi, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. Email: [email protected] Tuan-Hwee
Sng, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore. Email: [email protected] We are grateful
for comments from Tyler Cowen, Nathan Nunn, Jack Paine, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Noam Yuchtman, and
participants at the 2015 World Economic History Congress in Kyoto, the Frontiers in Chinese Economic History
Conference in Berkeley, the CUHK 6th Annual Conference on Chinese Economy, George Mason Economic
History and Development Workshop, and the 2016 NBER Japan project meeting. Pei Zhi Chia provided valuable
research support. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Hitotsubashi University IER Joint Usage
and Research Center Grant (FY2016) and Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1
(FY2014-FRC3-002).
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Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence: State Building in China and Japan After 1850
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We investigate the process of st ...
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