Mills Soko | July 24, 2020 | The Conversation East Asian countries have looked up to Japan as a model of success. The remarkable economic transformation of Asia in recent decades has attracted global attention. It has ignited scholarly and policy debat …
China Is Done Biding Its Time Published: July 19, 2020
The End of Beijing’s Foreign Policy Restraint? Kurt M. Campbell and Mira Rapp-Hooper | July 15, 2020 | Foreign Affairs A satellite image, taken in May, of a Chinese army base in Galwan Valley, where Chinese and Indian soldiers clashed last month. Maxar …
Egypt seeks ‘urgent clarification’ over GERD rising water levels Published: July 16, 2020
After conflicting reports, Ethiopia says it is not deliberately filling Blue Nile mega dam, points to heavy rainfall. 16 July 2020| Aljazeera Addis Ababa has long intended to begin filling the dam’s reservoir this month, in the middle of its rainy seas …
How Can the Press Best Serve a Democratic Society? Published: July 11, 2020
Illustration by Golden Cosmos Michael Luo |July 11, 2020 | The New Yorker Henry R. Luce, the publisher of Time Inc., first proposed engaging a panel of scholars on the state of the American press in December of 1942. He suggested the idea to his …
Inside The Cult of Trump Published: July 10, 2020
“HE’S THE CHOSEN ONE TO RUN AMERICA”: INSIDE THE CULT OF TRUMP, HIS RALLIES ARE CHURCH AND HE IS THE GOSPEL Trump’s rallies—a bizarre mishmash of numerology, tweetology, and white supremacy—are the rituals by which he stamps his name on the American dr …
Africa’s ‘Leaders for Life’ Published: July 10, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many of the world’s longest-ruling heads of state, but civil society and regional blocs may be slowing the trend of extending presidential terms in some areas. Backgrounder by Claire Felter | Last updated June 30 …
With Great Demographics Comes Great Power Published: July 10, 2020
Why Population Will Drive Geopolitics Nicholas Eberstadt | July/August 2019 | Foreign Affairs Keep ’em coming: at a daycare center in New York City, May 2010 Demographics may not be destiny, but for students of geopolitics, they come close. Although co …
How a Great Power Falls Apart Published: July 8, 2020
Decline Is Invisible From the Inside Charles King | June 30, 2020 | Foreign Affairs Protesters in Moscow, 1991Daniel Biskup / laif / Redux On November 11, 1980, a car filled with writers was making its way along a rain-slick highway to a conference in …
Hachalu Hundessa: charismatic musician who wasn’t afraid to champion Ethiopia’s Oromo Published: July 8, 2020
Ilana Webster-Kogen | July 6, 2020 | The Conversation Members of the Oromo community in Minnesota in the US protest after the death of Hachalu Hundessa. Anyone who steps into the public sphere in Ethiopia is also a potential political leader. In this a …
The quiet rise of spy states Published: June 6, 2020
Murray Hunter | 5 Jun 2020 | Mail & Guardian People queue early in the morning outside a polling station located in the suburb of Mbare in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, on July 30, 2018 to vote during general elections. – Zimbabwe goes to the polls in …