Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives
Maguatcher Jeremie and Chen Bateer examine how the ongoing geopolitical realignment is reshaping global higher education—transforming universities into instruments of influence,…
Jasmina Saric, Cedric Invernizzi, Filippa Lentzos, Mary Onsarigo and Luk Van Langenhove call for a coordinated science diplomacy strategy to bridge science and security,…
Jianyong Yue contends that today’s U.S.–China Cold War is the product of structural miscalculations and missed strategic opportunities, rather than an inevitable clash of…
Paris Fashion Week dazzles the cameras each season, yet behind the scenes the industry faces a reckoning. Bangladesh, the engine behind much of Europe’s affordable fashion, is…
Robert H. Wade and Jakob Vestergaard explore why some powers wish to prevent the Bank form representing the contemporary global economy.
China’s President Xi Jinping takes every…
Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism by R. Joseph Parrott. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 392 pp.,…
Raheem Nkumane outlines why the race for critical minerals will define decades of future growth and innovation.
The role of oil and gold in the global economy and the world’s…
Mark Beeson explores how Australia could help to unpick the China-US ‘security dilemma’.
The commitment to the AUKUS pact, with its $368 billion price tag, is the biggest…
Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat on why Indonesia’s President must resist the temptation to treat climate policy as a diplomatic talking point divorced…
Ashfaq Zaman argues that we need a new refugee repatriation model: one that turns crises into opportunities, that binds states into accountability, and that restores dignity to…