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China After Forty Years of Reforms and Openness
China is celebrating its 40th anniversary of ‘Reforms and Openness’. China has achieved remarkable growth and development in the last 40 years. Over the course of these years, China has…
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The Future of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
In its peak days, Islamic State (IS) controlled two-thirds of Iraq and one-third of Syria. It had an annual turnover of $2 billion. Three years of military measures by Iraqi…
J’Accuse Macron
A far cry from Émile Zola’s appeal for clemency on Albert Dreyfus’s part but certainly not a departure from French tradition, the ‘Yellow Vest’ demonstrations have inherited intrinsically recalcitrant French…
Artificial Intelligence and the Spill Over of Economic Growth
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the economic dimensions of both developed and developing countries in particular, and underdeveloped nations in general. Historically, technological advancement modernised various aspects of the economy…
Evolution of Artificial Intelligence: From Perceptron to Big Data
In the last 70 years the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) saw many stages with both optimism and despair at the same time. The initial foot prints can be found…
Creative Destruction: Pakistan’s Track to Modernity
When something is destroyed, it makes room for recreation. Loss is inevitable, but destruction provides an opportunity for reconstructing what was, into something bigger and better than before. Joseph Schumpeter…
Dispatch 2 – Muhammad Arif on the Historical Background of Gwadar
In the second episode of Experts Dispatch, CSCR interviewed Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Balochistan Muhammad Arif. Mr. Arif explained the historical background of Gwadar in a...