Articles

Opinion – Is Somaliland Defying the Odds, or Are the Odds Based on a Flawed Premise?

Jamal Abdi • Dec 17 2024 • Articles

Democracy in Somaliland integrates traditional figures within a bicameral legislature, without conforming to external normative demands.

Toxic Citizenship, Everyday Extremism and Social Media Governance

Nick Robinson • Dec 17 2024 • Articles

Beyond advocating incremental change, law makers should ask what sort of a society we have become when an ambulance service is driven off social media.

How Călin Georgescu and Far-Right Leaders Turn Conspiracy into Spectacle

Mihaela-Georgiana Mihăilescu • Dec 17 2024 • Articles

Memes are emerging as powerful tools of resistance, exposing the absurdity of claims and undermining their polarising intent.

Opinion – Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine Is a Double-Edged Sword

Jinghao Zhou • Dec 16 2024 • Articles

History shows that what cannot be achieved on the battlefield is unlikely to be obtained at the negotiating table.

Opinion – Assad’s Regime Has Fallen: Time to Lift Sanctions on Syria

Mohammad Kanfash • Dec 16 2024 • Articles

Syria’s new rulers should be held to account if they deviate from the people’s aspirations, but sanctions should not stand in the way of recovery.

Behind the Scenes: Unveiling Paradiplomacy in the Climate Conference of the Parties

Ana Almeida-Dias • Dec 15 2024 • Articles

Contributions from regional and local authorities enrich the global dialogue, fostering more representative decision-making processes.

Not So Bad After All: How US Foreign Policy Could Navigate a Multipolar World

Mark N. Katz • Dec 15 2024 • Articles

Containing rivals via buck-passing may be less costly for the U.S. than continuing to respond to each and every threat as if in a unipolar world.

Eco-Socialism: An Introduction

Vivian Ike • Dec 12 2024 • Articles

Eco-socialism seeks to transform a global exploitative and unequal socioeconomic relationship amongst human beings into one that is free from degradation, exploitation, and inequality.

The Role of BRICS in India’s Foreign Policy

Paola Andrea Baroni • Dec 12 2024 • Articles

The BRICS+ is one space in which India seeks to project its power and continue to emerge as a leading nation of the Global South.

Opinion – Is Multipolarity Destined to Destabilize the World?

Andrew Latham and Raymond Yu • Dec 12 2024 • Articles

With the right approach, multipolarity could evolve into an era of constructive engagement, where powers balance their ambitions with a sense of responsibility.

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