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Lawless world

We are living in an increasingly lawless, shadowy world — where international conventions and institutions are not just ignored, but actively undermined, as powerful states engage in acts amounting to…

Rogue states

The US-led west has created new forms and methods of exercising its hegemony over the rest of the world. The colonial history of the past two centuries is already filled…

Development in a post-aid world

If you visit the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, you will come across Kibera, one of the largest slum dwellings in the world. Housing approximately 250,000 people across an area of…

A world in stasis

In the aftermath of the two world wars, the establishment of the United Nations (UN) in 1945 was heralded as a bold and idealistic effort to build a new global…

G-zero world

Law of the jungle! The G7 (Group of Seven) is dead. The G20 (Group of Twenty) has crumbled into irrelevance. Multilateralism? A relic of a bygone era. Eight more days…

A volatile world in 2025

THE world seems more unstable and unpredictable today than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Heightened geopolitical tensions, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and…

Tech lords of the world

THIS past weekend, rumours were flying around that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was hosting a $600 million wedding to his fiancée Lauren Sanchez in Aspen, Colorado. The rumour reached all…

An unravelling world order

The real purpose of the world order established primarily by the US-led West in the aftermath of World War II, behind the facade of the maintenance of international peace and…