Mainstream Weekly

Act East through the North-East

Jajati K Pattnaik — 2015-04-12T09:46:29Z

The ‘Look East Policy' changed into the ‘Act East Policy' under the present political dispensation led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This dispensation has called for a robust and result-oriented diplomacy to attain India's national interest in its Eastern neighbourhood. The piecemeal approach is supposedly replaced by a proactive one to steer the course with a renewed spirit to secure tangible results in geostrategic as well as geo-economic terms. Contextualised in India's North-East, the (…)

- 2015

Arab Spring and Democracy: Reinventing the Debate

Jajati K Pattnaik — 2014-04-02T09:06:13Z

Arab Spring1 and democracy are the catch-phrases in the contemporary intellectual discourse to define the trajectory of democratic transformation in the Arab world envisaging political participation, rule of law, increasing human capabilities, and development. Moreover, the wave of mass protests and demonstrations that rocked in the Arab world was largely attributed to repressive regimes, misuse of human rights, corruption, unemployment, and failure of the economic structure to afford (…)

- 2014

A Critique of Neo-Liberal Development and Alternatives

Jajati K Pattnaik — 2008-06-15T21:04:24Z

Neo-liberal development based on the foundations of free market, free trade, and integration building policies envisages a world order glowing with growth and prosperity. Globalisation as the instrument of this philosophy espouses the diffusion of knowledge and technology stretching de-territorialised economic growth. The driving forces behind this process are transnational corporations and international financial institutions intended to create a new epoch in international relations with a (…)

- June 14, 2008