Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

13 April 2022
John Wagner Givens provides an alternative perspective to fears that China is watching Russia's actions in Ukraine with a view Taiwan's future. Since Russia’s brazen and…
12 April 2022
Indrajit Roy argues that the support for Ukraine among much of the Global South stands in stark contrast to the abstentions by 35 countries. The brutal war in Ukraine has led many…
11 April 2022
Between bombing runs, secretive and contradictory diplomatic maneuvers, severe sanctions as well as humanitarian neglect, it is clear that the plight of ordinary Syrians is not of…
08 April 2022
Takamitsu Hadano examines the role of multilateralism in the UN Security Council in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War and beyond with a focus on issues surrounding…
07 April 2022
Writing for GPNG, Caroline Tynan argues that online platforms must adhere to and carefully balance international human rights law to tackle online hate and extremism during…
06 April 2022
Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes explores why middle and regional powers are playing a delicate balancing act on Russia. Emerging, middle or regional powers in the Global South…
05 April 2022
Zhanna Malekos Smith explores the future of state enabled cyber security threats. The U.S. intelligence community (IC) recently unveiled its new Annual Threat Assessment,…
31 March 2022
Guinea is an exemplary case of North-South exploitation, as well as of the ambiguities involved on both sides. This is what is shown by the case of its foreign-stored gold…
30 March 2022
Robert H. Wade argues the West is following a well worn play book. On 26 March President Biden, speaking in Warsaw, said, unscripted: “For God’s sake, this man [Putin] cannot…
30 March 2022
Rather than accepting global rankings and their accompanying policy recommendations, Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Yu Ching Kuo contend that policymakers should either ignore, or…