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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Rather than accepting global rankings and their accompanying policy recommendations, Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Yu Ching Kuo contend that policymakers should either ignore, or…
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 …
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…
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…
Understandably, perhaps, progressive researchers often prefer to try to understand the lives, challenges and struggles of the poor. Who wants to spend their time talking to sleazy…
The United States vs China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership by C. Fred Bergsten. Cambridge: Polity 2022. 384 pp., £25 hardcover 9781509547357
Although Fred Bergsten’s…