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Commercial diplomacy has been seen as a very crucial tool in boosting anddevelop a countries economy towards an extent. The commercial diplomacy activitieshas many successful stories and result especially in European region where through thiscommercial diplomacy, it can be seen that many countries able to develop further theireconomies. The trend of implementing commercial diplomacy is blooming specificallyin ASEAN countries. Despite having many successful stories, many...

Knowledge diplomacy is one of the new types of diplomacy to emerge more recently. Amore recent conceptualization of knowledge diplomacy has broadened the focus to therole of international higher education, research and innovation in building/strengtheningrelations between and among countries. Furthermore, one of the aims of the 11thMalaysia Plan (2016-2020) is to accelerate human capital development for an advancednation. One of the challenges being highlighted in the M...

Since the partition of 1947, the relations between India and Pakistan have been plagued by numerous historical andgeopolitical events. The states waged four war, including the 1999 Kargil war which the first nuclear test had beentested by Pakistan. In August last year, numerous new threats have led to the worsening of security conflicts betweenIndia and Pakistan. This research explores several factors that contributed to cross-border terrorism in Kashmir.Moreover, a peacefu...

The increase of supports towards Democratic Socialism especially among youth has beenskyrocketed over the years due to the fact that it is clearer day by day that the approach ofDemocratic Capitalism adopted globally failed to narrow the class gap and also failed to resolvethe issue regarding the constant exploitation by private companies. While past iteration ofSocialism has been famous of being a major failure, it is still yet to be prove whether the ideasof Democrati...

The dispute between Singapore and Malaysia over Pedra Branca started in 1980, after theDirector of National Mapping of Malaysia issued a map in 1979 showing Pedra Branca tobe within its territorial waters which Singapore requested for the map to be corrected. Sincethen the two countries have tried various ways in settling the dispute until they finallyagreed to bring the case up to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). However, in thedecision made by ICJ in 2008 did...