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Deepak Lal: Barack Obama and deterring China

In his failure to impose the US' superpower status, the current US president resembles Jimmy Carter

Deepak Lal: Encircling China

When dealing with an aggressive China, there are lessons to be learned from how Germany was contained a century ago

Deepak Lal: China's geopolitical resurgence

Chinese history provides its rulers with no templates for dealing with other states as equals

Deepak Lal: India's frontiers: A razor's edge

The frontiers of the Raj were progressively dismantled after 1947, and India is still living with the consequences

Deepak Lal: Europe in decline

Current European politics is unlikely to provide the necessary cure for the euro zone's economic woes

Deepak Lal: The dove and the wolf

We cannot allow ourselves to believe that war is becoming defunct

China's statist turn: hubris to nemesis?

Economic rebalancing would strike at the heart of the Communist Party of China's interests

China's statist turn II: the 'development' bank

Deepak Lal explains how the China Development Bank runs its infrastructure spending and Chinese economic foreign policy

China's statist turn: creating China Inc

China's state sector has assumed the guise of Western corporations, but it is little more than a Party-run patronage system

Changing class in America

America's upper and working classes have grown very far apart

The case for 'trickle-down'

The author investigates the real link between inequality, poverty and growth

A demographic time bomb

India is swiftly becoming a high-sex ratio society, and policy must change to accommodate that

Deepak Lal: Policy, not pessimism

The Washington Consensus is still the best way to promote sustained growth

Deepak Lal: Restraining Leviathan

James M Buchanan's work on restraining the predatory state has great relevance for India

Deepak Lal: Shale gas and Pax Americana

The geostrategic implications of the shale gas revolution invalidate predictions of the death of American-style capitalism

Deepak Lal: Three turning points

The US and India are politically unable to force their economies away from entitlements, and China seems unwilling to relax controls

Deepak Lal: The West's banking crisis - remedies

Some form of Glass-Steagall, separating commercial and investment banking, is the only way to fix the system

Deepak Lal: The West's banking crisis - I

It is government policy that has led to the socialisation of risk and privatisation of benefit

Deepak Lal: The Olympics, good and bad

The Games may have shown off Britain, but were bread and circuses for a declining empire

Deepak Lal: Money matters

Confusion between money & credit has infected West's response to financial crisis