Summer Summitry Amid Geopolitical Tensions

While preparing a reading list for The Whistle Library monthly post exclusively for subscribers to The Whistle (my blog’s free monthly newsletter), I realized that this June and July have been months of intense international summitry around the world. From the G-7, NATO and SCO to the BRICS summit, an EU Summit, and the 4th… Continue reading Summer Summitry Amid Geopolitical Tensions

Development and All That We Understand by It

When reading newspapers or books or watching the news, we often come across the word development. It is a term so often used to mean growth, loosely speaking, that when attached to any other word, it takes on new meanings. Urban development, rural development, industrial development, sustainable development, etc. Then, of course, we have the… Continue reading Development and All That We Understand by It