Democracy doesn’t have to be Western-style, nor the development template
by Rashmee
Posted on September 19, 2020
Veteran foreign policywallah Kishore Mahbubani once wrote a piece for The New York Times titled …
Read MoreIs democracy really dying a slow, agonising death?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 25, 2019
It’s fashionable these days for commentators to lament the lingering death of democracy. It’s being …
Read MoreAt the rate European disunion is going, Britain won’t need to exit
by Rashmee
Posted on February 8, 2019
Remember, before the Brexit referendum there was Viktor Orban. In 2014, two years before Britain …
Read MoreTurkey’s state of permanent crisis serves Erdogan
by Rashmee
Posted on January 20, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
Nearly three years after the failed coup that triggered a massive crackdown in Turkey, Turkish …
Read MoreA tale of two protests
by Rashmee
Posted on December 20, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
What happened in Brussels and Budapest on December 18 was about immigration and its real …
Read MoreWe’re seeing Plato’s prediction unfold as a 3-act play: democracy, oligarchy, tyranny
by Rashmee
Posted on November 2, 2018
It’s become a familiar dirge: democracy is in decline and strongmen are on the rise.…
Read MoreEver noticed how democracy is described as if it equals justice and virtue?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 22, 2018
The other day a prominent columnist for an American newspaper bewailed “our current democratic travails” …
Read MoreA world of non-traditional coups and justice dispensed with one eye on politics
by Rashmee
Posted on September 4, 2018
In Pakistan, so some have said, the powerful army decided not to have a conventional …
Read MoreDoes Hungary’s Viktor Orban think he’s a Christian Saladin?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 2, 2018
What gives Hungary the right – or responsibility – to lead the West? Nothing very …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK