Editor's Desk

Editors Desk

Editor-in-Chief’s Letter

The American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. would say, “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Indeed we are. There are but moments in history when nations do not merely grow. There are but moments in history when they do not merely outshine the collective expectation of their people. What they do is reposition themselves in the imagination of the world...

Editor’s Desk

Editor’s Desk

For much of history, geography did shape destiny. Nations traded with neighbours, distance constrained diplomacy, and oceans acted as barriers that defined economic relationships. But the world is changing. In the 21st century, geography still matters, but it no longer defines destiny in the way it once did. Strategy, technology, trade corridors and human networks are reshaping the meaning of distance...