This week, we expand the discussion into wider sphere, focusing on emerging donors in international development assistance. Apart from traditional or established donor members in OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the emergence of China, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Venezuela, India, Kuwait and Brazil, among others in recent years has changed the ‘economic …
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Urwah Saari
AUSPICE Malaysia
This week, the discussion continues about elites and political settlement. I have learned that politics cannot separate itself from being associated with political actor and its behavior. Political actor often refers to the elites and it works to attain political settlement, which determine key driver that mediate politics of a state. Menocal (2015,p.7) describes political …
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Urwah Saari
AUSPICE Malaysia
Mungkin kekuatan hati ini tidak dicamkan oleh konglomerat dan taipan belum lama ini saya baca di media, mengancam akan menarik investasinya di Indonesia. Entah ancamannya serius atau tidak, karena belum tentu juga akurat – – lagi-lagi harus saya tulis begini demi UU ITE yang baru, karena saya belum konfirmasi ke sang taipan. Jika saja kalimat …
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Iwan Piliang