Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

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…
28 March 2022
Nik Emir Din explores what the tech sector could learn from Fairtrade. Every day, there is a new war over data. Right now, Europe and Meta are locking horns over …
25 March 2022
Dave Anderson explains how NATO’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is neither a realist nor idealist reponse but a pragmatist response. There are many isms in…
25 March 2022
Zhanna Malekos Smith explores a recent fractures in U.S.-Russia space relations. Since 1998, the International Space Station (ISS) has been praised as an exemplary model…