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The Man in Black Glasses at the UN

Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal global power also reveal the limits of turning a complex crisis into

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Singapore Cannot Be Copied

Singapore’s success was built on a compact city-state, a strategic port, concentrated population, state-controlled housing, tightly coordinated institutions and deliberate social engineering. Sri Lanka, with its rural economy, agricultural regions, established ethnic communities and democratic political traditions, faces fundamentally different

Karma in the Constitution

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Sri Lanka’s post-1978 political history offers a curious pattern: constitutional amendments designed to strengthen those in power have often produced consequences that later weakened

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The False Story of German Democracy

Germany’s postwar democratic stability is often attributed to a constitution designed to prevent another Weimar collapse. But Weimar already had powerful tools to defend democracy, which political institutions often failed to use against the nationalist right. After 1945, Allied occupation, denazification and the dismantling