What does a missile exchange between Iran and Israel have to do with the price of a taxi ride in Gaborone? At first glance, very little. Botswana has no stake in the conflict and is not a major player in Middle Eastern politics. Yet when tensions...
As a result, the increased attention to Africa by external powers in both political and economic terms can be attributed to these features. Due to the growing geopolitical importance of Africa, there has been increasing competition among superpowers...
This article explores the role of mercenaries and private military contractors (PMCs) in contemporary African conflicts, highlighting their benefits, such as providing military expertise and flexibility, alongside the exploitation they often...
The Strait is not just a waterway; it is the heart of the global energy system. If it were to fully shut down, the effects would not be limited to oil markets or the region's geopolitics. It would disrupt the reasoning behind globalisation...
However, while oil is a physical resource, data is an infinite by-product of human activity generated through every digital interaction. While the Industrial Revolution was built on the extraction of minerals and labour from colonised countries, the...
In places like Sudan and parts of the Middle East, the use of drone attacks has grown, especially in the densely populated regions, with reports of over 500 civilians being killed in the initial months of 2026 alone. Markets, residential areas, and...
This assumption of unlimited abundance shaped maritime law, global trade, and coastal economies in the same way. But nowadays, that historical error has come back to haunt us. Illegal fishing, previously regarded as a regulatory inconvenience, has...
His academic profile, as an adviser at the US State Department and at USAID on religion and foreign policy, gives him a strong grasp of both scholarly debates and policy practiceMandaville and Jon Hoffman lays the conceptual foundation in his first...
Not so apparent but no less fundamental is the human labour that keeps this great maritime system at work. Seaborne labour is one of the most crucial yet under-investigated aspects of maritime relations, despite its growing role in the economic...
It is the global economy. From oil markets to shipping routes and financial markets, the conflict is already sending shockwaves through an international economic system that was fragile even before the first missiles were fired. While bombs fall in...
However, reality on the ground reveals a disturbing anomaly. News of ballistic missile exchanges is now received by the global community not as a moral alarm, but as a mere routine digital notification. Amidst an instantaneous flood of information, a...
The missile retaliation from the Iranian military on the Gulf states has triggered some debates on whether Iran can achieve its strategic objective of putting the Gulf states under strain, which might compel them to pressure the US to halt the...
The contrast is impossible to ignore. As the United Nations warned in its latest briefing to the AU, the continent is facing an unprecedented wave of insecurity—from the Sahel’s jihadist expansion to Sudan’s civil war, from eastern Congo’s...
However, in the 21st century, this classical script has evolved in such a manner that it has erased the lines between statecraft, media, cyberspace, economics, and even intelligence work. The diplomacy of today is working in what some scholars and...
This has led to Taiwan’s international isolation, reducing its diplomatic allies to a very limited number and confining recognition to only a few countries. China’s relationship with countries of the Global South is characterised by their...
All they need now is an internet connection, a social media account, and closed, hard-to-trace chat rooms. This is the new face of terrorism: invisible, borderless, and infiltrating our daily lives through the small screens in our hands. This...
While China’s political and economic engagement in Africa remains the backbone of Africa-China relations, diplomacy is the main foreign policy tool which Chinese officials use to exert influence across the continent. China’s multilateral...
While analysts widely view a Museveni victory as almost certain, given his firm control over state institutions and the ruling National Resistance Movement, the conduct of the vote and its aftermath could shape Uganda’s political climate, domestic...
Would the fall of Mogadishu resemble more the Taliban conquest of Kabul or Hay’at Tahrir al-Shams’ domination of Damascus? Al-Shabaab had seized a succession of strategic towns from the Somali National Army with little apparent difficulty.By...
At a time when many countries are mired in political polarization, crises of trust, and a stubborn diplomatic style, the Nordic countries demonstrate the exact opposite, as seen in how they win global diplomacy through public trust.Ironically, this...
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