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20 February 2025
This is the fifth chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective', edited by…
19 February 2025
Amrita Narlikar argues that while U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference stirred outrage in Europe, it also introduced valuable…
04 February 2025
(but forgot to mention it) My recent Substack on Donald Trump’s election and his assumption of presidential powers has attracted quite a lot of attention as well as…
04 February 2025
Branko Milanovic argues that the similarities with today’s situation are many. There is no better time than now to read E. H. Carr’s The twenty years’ crisis 1919 39. It could…
31 January 2025
Alfredo Toro Hardy addresses how Trump is delivering Latin America to China in a silver plate. It looks almost inevitable that Trump’s bullying of America’s allies and friends,…
30 January 2025
Markus H.-P. Müller explores the unfounded perception that AI is fundamentally opposed to sustainability.  In this post, I argue that we should not see artificial intelligence (AI…
21 January 2025
This is the fourth chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective', edited by…
20 January 2025
Scott Montgomery on why Trump and other foreign policy outsiders view Greenland through an external strategic and economic lens. President-elect Donald Trump has sparked…
20 January 2025
This is the third chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective', edited by Marina…
14 January 2025
C. J. Polychroniou explores how Elon Musk is using his social media platform to communicate directly with hundreds of millions, bypassing traditional media channels with…