Yuen Yuen Ang | May/June 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs Sooner or later this economy will slow,” the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman declared of China in 1998. He continued: “That’s when China will need a government that is legitimate. . . . When China’s 900 million villagers get phones, and start calling each other, this will inevitably become a more open … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2018
‘Zambia will become another Zimbabwe,’ warns opposition leader
Simon Allison | 26 Apr 2018 | Mail & Guardian The last time I spoke to Hakainde Hichilema, he was trapped in a panic room in his Lusaka home. Dozens of riot police had stormed the opposition leader’s house in a violent predawn raid, and were now waiting outside to arrest him — or worse. “This guy, [President Edgar] Lungu, wants to kill me,” he said, his voice shaking … [Read more...]
Zimbabwe backtracks on its promise to clear the way for diaspora to vote
Tom Wilson, Amogelang Mbatha and Brian Latham | 24 April 2018 | Business Day Zimbabwe does not have enough time before its general election in July to make the constitutional changes necessary to allow people living outside the country to vote, Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo said, backtracking on a statement he made a week ago. Zimbabweans living abroad should return … [Read more...]
Israel courts East Africa states to resolve its migrant crisis
ALLAN OLINGO | Saturday April 28 2018 | The East African Israel has abandoned a plan to forcibly deport African migrants, after failing to immediately find a willing country to take them in. In a Supreme Court filing on Tuesday, Tel Aviv said it had dropped its months-long plans to expel thousands of mostly Eritrean and Sudanese migrants who cross into the country … [Read more...]
Why Democracy Doesn’t Deliver
Dambisa Moyo | April 26, 2018 | Foreign Policy Endless elections, unqualified leaders, uninformed voters, and short-term thinking are impeding economic growth. Only 19 percent of Americans today say they can trust their government to do what is right. Meanwhile, citizens in developing countries see authoritarian leaders as more trustworthy than democratic … [Read more...]
The Sources of Soviet Conduct
"X" (George F. Kennan) | July 1947 Issue | Foreign Affairs The political personality of Soviet power as we know it today is the product of ideology and circumstances: ideology inherited by the present Soviet leaders from the movement in which they had their political origin, and circumstances of the power which they now have exercised for nearly three decades in Russia. … [Read more...]