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Eric Boa
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How to Become an Empire
China’s journey from poor and powerless to rich and regal has been swift and dramatic. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
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Eric Boa
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The Road to Everywhere
I’ve spent a lot of my working life on the road, an inevitable consequence of a long career in international development...
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Stoker
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What divides Russia and China? “One of the most formidable rivers on Earth”
“Travel broadens the mind” you must have been told many times. But does it? In the twenty first century, does it? It can certainly be fasci
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Richard Pooley
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Why do the British litter? What can we learn from Japan and France?
One afternoon late last year I watched a young woman having a smoke on the pavement below my study window in Bath.
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Richard Pooley
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“Japanese bodies are different”. Why exceptionalism can be fatal.
What’s gone wrong in Japan? I wrote four articles* between June last year and January this year comparing the Japanese management
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