LECTURES

A view on what makes China tick, seen from a psycholinguistic perspective, drawing inferences for China, India and the world at large 1. Why Understanding China is important China is an emerging 21st century superpower; India is some way behind. China and India are not engaging each other’s strengths to mutual advantage, though the rest… Continue reading National Strategy Lecture – Unraveling the Mind of China

1. Why Understanding China is important, especially for India China is an emerging 21st century superpower; India is too, but way behind. Yet China and India neither understand each other, nor are they engaging each other’s strengths to mutual advantage. If they do so, Tagore’s and Toynbee’s ‘Asian Century’ could be a potent force for… Continue reading National Strategy Lecture – China 2020: a Confucian Democracy?

Abstract Israel has been facing, successfully, a constant military threat from its very inception in 1948. However, the nature of the threat has been drastically transformed at least three times in this period. In the beginning the structure was that of total war, during the struggle for independence. Later it transpired to a long period… Continue reading National Strategy Lecture – Changing Strategies to Face the Challenges of an Asymmetric Security Environment