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A Post-American Africa -The U.S. Is Falling Behind

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Reuben Brigety | August 28, 2018 | Foreign Affairs Africa is transforming rapidly, and the United States’ approach to Africa is not keeping pace. While other countries are jumping at opportunities to invest in growing African economies, the United States is struggling to keep up. China’s commitments to the continent are stronger than ever, as evidenced by the upcoming … [Read more...] about A Post-American Africa -The U.S. Is Falling Behind

How Daniel Ortega Became a Tyrant: From Revolutionary to Strongman

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Gioconda Belli | August 24, 2018  | Foreign Affairs What never should have happened is happening again in Nicaragua. Since April 18, when the violent suppression of protests against a Social Security Reform triggered a massive civic insurrection, President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo, have abandoned all pretense of tolerance and restraint … [Read more...] about How Daniel Ortega Became a Tyrant: From Revolutionary to Strongman

The New Arab Order: Power and Violence in Today’s Middle East

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Marc Lynch | September/ October 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs In 2011, millions of citizens across the Arab world took to the streets. Popular uprisings from Tunis to Cairo promised to topple autocracies and usher in democratic reforms. For a moment, it looked as if the old Middle Eastern order was coming to an end and a new and better one was taking its place. But things … [Read more...] about The New Arab Order: Power and Violence in Today’s Middle East

Water Wars on the Nile: How Water Scarcity and Middle Eastern Influence Are Reshaping Northeast Africa

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Daniel Benaim and Michael Wahid Hanna | August 9, 2018 | Foreign Affairs In Ethiopia, Africa’s largest-ever dam and hydroelectric power plant is inching closer to completion. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile River has the potential to transform Ethiopia’s economy and revolutionize the agricultural sector of its northwestern neighbor Sudan. But … [Read more...] about Water Wars on the Nile: How Water Scarcity and Middle Eastern Influence Are Reshaping Northeast Africa

The People’s Authoritarian – How Russian Society Created Putin

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Michael Kimmage | July/August 2018 Issue  | Foreign Affairs In 1839, the French aristocrat Astolphe Louis Léonor, better known as the Marquis de Custine, traveled to Russia to understand “the empire of the Czar.” Competing with his compatriot Alexis de Tocqueville’s study of American democracy, Custine produced a travelogue that was also an analysis of “eternal Russia.” … [Read more...] about The People’s Authoritarian – How Russian Society Created Putin

Marxist World – What Did You Expect From Capitalism?

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Robin Varghese | July/August 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs After nearly every economic downturn, voices appear suggesting that Marx was right to predict that the system would eventually destroy itself. Today, however, the problem is not a sudden crisis of capitalism but its normal workings, which in recent decades have revived pathologies that the developed world seemed to … [Read more...] about Marxist World – What Did You Expect From Capitalism?

Autocracy With Chinese Characteristics—Beijing’s Behind-the-Scenes Reforms

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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...] about Autocracy With Chinese Characteristics—Beijing’s Behind-the-Scenes Reforms

Cambridge Analytica and the digital war in Africa

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Martin Plaut | 20 March 2018  | The New Statesman Across the continent, UK expertise is being deployed online to sway elections and target dissidents. Cambridge Analytica, the British political consultancy caught up in a huge scandal over its use of Facebook data, has boasted that they ran the successful campaigns of President Uhuru Kenyatta in the 2013 and 2017 Kenyan … [Read more...] about Cambridge Analytica and the digital war in Africa

If I were the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, I’d be cynical about this state visit

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Robert Fisk | 07 March 2018 | The Independent The truth is, you just can't tell who your real friends are these Days Thank heavens Theresa May is giving a warm welcome today to the illustrious Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, His Royal Majesty Mohammad bin Salman. For it is meet and right that she should do so. His Royal Highness is a courageous Arab reformer, keen to drag … [Read more...] about If I were the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, I’d be cynical about this state visit