“The world, as we know it, is becoming increasingly multi-polar.” This is a proposition oft-trotted out to describe or highlight the significance of events such as the ongoing BRICS Summit in Johannes ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
Wang Li graduated from university with a degree in political science and public administration. Now she is working in Guiyang, southwest China, as a live-in domestic help. It is not her first choice, ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-15
In conversations with friends and colleagues I often hear the question, “What do the youth make of this?”, or “What, really, do the youth want?” As I have argued elsewhere in my assessment of events r ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
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We seem to live in an era of rolling financial crisis, which I suspect is the result of a massive build-up of private sector debt. Sometimes these build-ups are accompanied by very high rates of credi ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-04
The contemporary individual is likely to lead a much longer life, with substantially greater material abundance, a wider range of places to which they can travel, a more stable and harmonious family l ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
Essentially, all politicians seek power, whether to use it for the good of their electorate or to advance their personal agenda. A political system that lacks the means to restrain or prevent the abus ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
When Kundera penned The Unbearable Lightness of Being in the early 1980s, he was living in France whilst the ossified Soviet Union was crumbling under the weight of its successive generations of gento ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-21
We’ve all heard the familiar saying by now, “With great power comes great responsibility”. What had originated, as far as I’m aware, in a Spiderman movie (a line quipped by Aunt May to Peter Parker), ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-20
Four professions that used to attract the brightest local students to join were accounting, architecture, law and medical. Seen as the most prosperous careers, it is said that most parents would advis ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-20
When Ireland joined the European Union in 1973, it was the poorest member. Now it is one of the richest, with a per capita GDP last year double that of Britain. In 2022, its GDP grew 12.2 per cent, th ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-17
