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...The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D Kaplan Random House £25/$30, 400 pages James Crabtree is executive director of the International Institute for Strategic...
...Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography staked out similar ground a decade ago....
...New flats at the Fulham Reach scheme rent well, and the Crabtree Conservation Area of quiet Victorian and Edwardian roads is popular with the medics, staff and the medical students at Charing Cross Hospital...
...Gideon Rachman puts the question to James Crabtree, executive director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore....
...Peter Orszag, Robert Rubin and Joseph Stiglitz have published a joint contribution to the debate about the future of fiscal policy, arguing that deep long-term uncertainty about the economy requires more...
...The AFBF, a lobby group for American farmers, joined other farmers’ associations to write to US trade representative Robert Lighthizer last week, urging the Trump administration not to abandon the World...
...For more, James Crabtree expertly examines the twists and turns of Facebook’s troubles in India and the implication for Mark Zuckerberg’s broader expansion plans in the region....
...James Crabtree reviews four books that envision apocalypse — and how to avoid it....
...These brief lives (plus a reappraisal of General Robert E Lee) help the authors challenge leadership myths, including the mistaken idea that leadership is an individual endeavour....
...Doig, Columbia Global Reports, RRP$14.99, 107 pages Our Time Has Come: How India Is Making Its Place In The World, by Alyssa Ayres, Oxford University Press, RRP£18.99, 360 pages James Crabtree is an associate...
...Personally, though, I’m waiting for “Impeachment” by Robert Mueller. Now, there’s a power scent guaranteed to be a bestseller....
...The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age, by James Crabtree Former Financial Times Mumbai correspondent Crabtree uses a vivid comparison with America’s late 19th-century Gilded Age...
...Robert Shrimsley, columnist and FT editorial director The lesson I always wish I’d learnt, and I have to say I still haven’t learnt it, is the ability to shut up....
...james.crabtree@ft.comTwitter: @jamescrabtree...
...Leibbrandt, Chief Executive Officer, Swift William Dixon, Head of Intelligence, GIS, Barclays Jonathan Luff, Co-Founder, Cyber London James Chappell, CTO and Co-Founder, Digital Shadows. ——————————————– James Crabtree...
...MODERATOR: James Crabtree, Contributing Editor, Financial Times....
...India-China tensions — four key flashpoints The String of Pearls Robert Kaplan, the US academic, popularised the term “string of pearls” to describe a network of Chinese-backed infrastructure projects...
...During India’s general election this year, opposition politicians accused DLF of providing loans and property at below market rates to Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, in exchange...
...Narayana Murthy Narayana Murthy’s reputation as a pioneer of Indian software seemed secure when he stepped down as chairman of Infosys, writes James Crabtree....
...Foreign “marquee” players such as former Arsenal star Robert Pires and Swedish veteran Freddy Ljungberg are already signed up, largely to draw in some of the 131m Indians who the organisers say tune in to...
...Additional reporting by Geoff Dyer and James Crabtree...
...motives behind a blockbuster deal Neeraj Kanwar, Apollo Tyre’s managing director, portrays his blockbuster $2.5bn attempt to acquire Cooper Tire as the result of a careful, decorous courtship, writes James Crabtree...
...“In Sri Lanka the string of pearls theory is alive and well,” says author Robert Kaplan, whose work popularised the theory of China’s growing influence in south Asia....
...Indian e-commerce — James Crabtree, Mumbai 2014 was the year Indian ecommerce finally grew up....
...The following year, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US private equity group, agreed to invest a further $250m in the business....
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