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Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene argues that Africa must choose between fragmented dependency or sovereign cooperation.
As African countries consolidate post pandemic gains as…
Alasdair Gordon-Gibson questions the relevance of universal principles to communities in crisis and presents the concept of voluntary ‘praxis’ as a more functional expression of…
Abdur Rehman Cheema argues that Pakistan must prioritise a shift from elite-centric power arrangements toward deep, structural domestic reforms.
On 12 November 2025, Pakistan…
Picture the year 2030. US President JD Vance is in the White House, AI has reshaped labour markets, and climate shocks are harder to ignore. In that setting, what sort of global…
Yu Xiong argues that we’re seeing the same lethal combination of overvaluation, overdependence, and under-regulation that toppled the financial system in 2008, but there are…
Paola Vargas-Arana argues that census designers should recognise categories as political artefacts rather than technical facts, and commit to historical accountability in how they…
Andrew Cooper, University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, is in Johannesburg for the G20 Summit, November 22-23, 2025.
US President Trump has cast a profound…
Amidst geopolitical rifts, a string of high-level meetings over the next weeks provides Europe an opportunity to resolve its struggle to find footing on the global stage. While…
Andrew Cooper, University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, is in Johannesburg for the G20 Summit.
I was prepared to be extremely gloomy about the South African…
Reacting to recent developments, Karin Austin, Michael Bohlander and Kimberly S. Engels argue that it's time we listen to those that claim to have had close encounters with UAP.…
If the last century’s struggle was over who controls information, Emrys Schoemaker and Tom Kirk argue that the next may be over who controls the infrastructures of trust.
As…
Azira Ahimsa reimagines a future of international agreements in which we reconcile human ambiguity with machine precision, as states automate more of their governance and…
Jean-Pierre Murray examines the legality of recent U.S. strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats, arguing that the shift from interdiction to kinetic armed force potentially…
The Non-Aligned World: Striking Out in an Era of Great Power Competition by Jorge Heine, Carlos Fortin and Carlos Ominami. Cambridge: Polity Press 2025. 220 pp., £50 hardcover 978…
In late 2025 the development cooperation architecture or system is being openly renegotiated rather than quietly adjusted. Will it be a gradual shift or will 2025 be seen in…