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    The dance of the elephant and the dragon: the promise and perils of Sino-Indian relations

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    India and China, two of the world's oldest civilisations, have had Ilittle historically relevant interactions with one other. Separated by the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, neither of these two nations has ever displayed expansionist tendencies vis-à-vis each other.
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    Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014
    Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycle
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    Preliminary observations on social security and health care systems of the BRICS

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015
    This summary provides some preliminary findings of research on social security and health care policies in the BRICS countries. Thus far, our research demonstrates some basic institutional information about the social security and health care policies of the BRICS countries, as well as about their complementary policy aims. Social security (old-age pensions):
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    China’s dams & regional security implications: an Indian perspective

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2015
    One of the characteristics of China’s “peaceful rise” has been its endeavour to control environment, demonstrated mainly by its dam-building policy. This paper underlines that China has been actively diverting river waters in its territory for different purposes.
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    Contemporary Taiwan: domestic politics, external relations and India’s interests

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2015
    Taiwan, a 36200-square kilometer island, fulfils every single criteria of a sovereign independent country and yet it is not allowed to be so. The current paper notes that Taiwan has only two relationships that really matter politically: the Taiwan-China bilateral and the Taiwan-US bilateral.
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    The chimera of global convergence

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    It has become a staple of conventional wisdom that global economic power is shifting inexorably towards the East and the South. Many insist that we are on the brink of a world-­historic rebalancing that will result in the end of Western domination and the rise of a new hegemony.
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    Shifting power reader: critical perspectives on emerging economies

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Does the emergence of a multipolar global order open up policy space for alternative economic visions and pose a necessary challenge to a US and Northern-dominated global order? Or might it instead reinvigorate capitalism and exploitation by a new constellation of corporate elites?
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    The emerging economies and climate change: a case study of the BASIC grouping

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Among the most dramatic and far-reaching geopolitical developments of the post-Cold War era is the shift in the locus of global power away from the West with the simultaneous emergence as major powers of former colonies and other countries in the South, which were long on the periphery of international capitalism.
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    BRICS: a global trade power in a multi-polar world

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Central to the narrative of emerging powers, and particularly the BRICS, is the issue of trade, as both the driver of their economic surge, the factor behind their growing economies and the platform it has given them to assert influence in global governance.
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    South Africa and the BRICS alliance: challenges and opportunities for South Africa and Africa

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    South Africa under the ANC and its alliance with the BRICS promised a more moral, democratic vision of global governance, but in practice its foreign policy has been too often swayed by narrow commercial interests and short-term growth. For the past decade, Africa has experienced the longest continuous growth spurt since independence from colonialism.

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