Ray* – Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) US-South Africa relations have been tense and difficult for several years, but with the advent of the Trump Administration they have reached a critical juncture. The eventual outcome of this bilateral relationship is likely to…
By Rachel Savage* – The Guardian NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee camps Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for…
By Lynn Kuok* – Foreign Affairs Forcing the Region to Choose Sides Risks Pushing It Toward China Acentury after the “wedding of the oceans”—the moment when U.S. President Woodrow Wilson ordered the final step in the creation of the Panama Canal, linking the Atlantic and…
By Dr. Asoka Bandarage* Will a peaceful and sustainable multipolar world be born when the rising economic weight of emerging economies is matched with rising geopolitical weight, as argued by renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs in his recent Other News article? (1) There is no…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* In cordial dialog with Jeffrey D. Sachs I have written several texts about the transitional society we are in. Whenever I do, Gramsci’s famous thought comes to mind: neither the old has…
Sachs* The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight. Writing in his cell as political prisoner in fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously declared…
By Edward Hunt* – Foreign Policy in Focus Ignoring the environmental dangers, the United States is trying to lock the Caribbean into dependence on fossil fuels. The Trump administration is organizing a network of energy-producing states in the Caribbean to provide the region…
By Jake Werner* – Responsible Statecraft The far bigger threat from Trump-China tariffs is a sharp escalation in ongoing security tensions that could easily turn into something else Trump suspended his global trade war with all countries except China. This confirms that, even as…
By Deborah Fry* – The Conversation The sexual exploitation and abuse of children has become a multibillion-dollar global trade. The chilling reality of this profit-driven, highly lucrative industry is laid bare by new findings from myself and colleagues at the University of…
By Pepe Escobar* – The Cradle Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’…
