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No wonder people get global warming and poverty wrong

By Ian Pryde on July 25, 2017 in Africa, China, Climate Change, Economy, Japan, Junk Education, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan

In 2009, the second edition of Mark Maslin’s book Global Warming. A Very Short Introduction appeared in the well-known series published by Oxford University Press. According to Maslin’s website, the […]

The Other Side of Security. Energy in the East Rarely Receives Enough Attention

By Ian Pryde on March 22, 2007 in Asia, Central Asia, China, Energy, Gas, Japan, North Korea, Oil, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan

Although the December-January pricing spat between Russia and Ukraine focused attention on Europe’s dependence on outside sources of gas, the political/energy security nexus in East Asia has been acute for […]

Post-imperial attitudes: Britain after the war and Russia today

By Ian Pryde on March 20, 2007 in Asia, China, Europe, International Relations/Geopolitics, Japan, Russia, Taiwan, United Kingdom

MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – In November 1992, the president of the Kyrgyz Republic, Askar Akayev, a research physicist before going into politics, told me in an interview […]

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