By Kester Kenn Klomegah* – Modern Diplomacy Kenya’s President Dr. William Samoei Ruto, during the first week of April 2024, visited the Republic of Ghana located in West Africa purposefully looking to deepen high-profile diplomatic ties, but beyond that championed very…
By Steve Crawshaw*- The Guardian Western governments could once be confident of protecting their friends. Nicaragua’s case shows those days are gone The case brought by Nicaragua against Germany at the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague this week is a powerful…
By Alex de Waal and Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe (* )- Foreign Affairs Arguably the worst armed conflict of the twenty-first century so far is not the one unfolding in Gaza or in Ukraine, but rather the catastrophic civil war in Ethiopia that ended 18 months ago. Also known as the…
By Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian Netanyahu’s decisions have brought death to Palestinians and harmed his own people. Hamas laid a trap and he walked right in Six months after the attacks of 7 October, and it’s time to count again the losses.
By Suzzane Linch – POLITICO In the Hungarian leader, the EU faces a new type of Euroskeptic, one who doesn’t want to leave the bloc but shape it. “We need to go deeper, occupy positions, gather allies and fix the European Union,” the 60-year-old Hungarian prime minister declared…
by Nick Corbishley* – Naked Capitalism Prosecutors “could theoretically seize phones and other relevant material from Commission offices or in other European countries,” as they expand their criminal probe into the Pfizergate scandal. As we warned in October last year, the…
Editorial – Le Monde By asserting that France ‘could have stopped’ the massacres in Rwanda in 1994 that killed 800,000, but ‘lacked the will to do so,’ Emmanuel Macron has crossed a new threshold. It sometimes takes decades, and a new generation of men, for a country to face up…
Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem and Harry Davies – The Guardian Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants The Israeli military’s bombing campaign in Gaza used a…
Francesco Rigoli* – The Conversation The division between right and left around the world has rarely felt more polarised. Of course there have always been differences between people on the different ends of the political spectrum, but now it seems they are living in different…
Caroll* – Modern Diplomacy Most historians agree that the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall in December of 1989, yet the elites of American diplomacy and foreign policy do not seem to grasp this quite simple fact. Karl Von Clausewitz, who wrote the book “On War”…
