End of the American century?
Everyone is feeling the turbulence in world affairs, with the change of guard at the White House making headlines. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has stopped funding…
Women’s unfinished revolution
Women’s political participation in shaping political discourse has remained minimal despite their significant proportion of the total population. Globally, there is an increasing focus on creating gender-balanced societies to address…
Total war
THE ‘ugly American’ is back. The phrase refers to a 1958 novel which critiqued US diplomacy in Southeast Asia during the Cold War by depicting US diplomats as insular, arrogant…
‘Democratic’ ethnic cleansing
THE discourse on democracy in the West — in particular — is self-congratulatory, and other systems that have delivered hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, hunger, illness, illiteracy…
Poor nation, rich lifestyles
A question that arises in every thinking mind is whether we are a developed nation, developing nation or a poor nation that barely managed to return from the edge of…
Myth of separation
The idea of separation of powers is often hailed as a foundational principle of modern governance, but it doesn’t necessarily focus on empowering ordinary citizens. At its core, it’s about…
Economic diplomacy is the way forward
This is the first of a two-part series detailing National Security Policy’s (NSP) foreign policy’s focus on economic diplomacy – a focus that is a challenge as the world moves…
As storm Trump approaches, EU tries to play it cool
Donald Trump hasn’t even moved back into the White House — but the volatile US president-elect has already rattled his counterparts in Europe. With under two weeks to his inauguration,…
Two sides of the social media coin
WITH social media platforms running amok without much regulation or oversight, the hybrid Pakistani government and those considered established democracies in Europe, such as the United Kingdom and Germany, seem…
Kelsen’s return
IF the government announces replacing the parliamentary system with a presidential one, would the reason suffice that many democracies in the world have presidential systems? And since parliamentary democracy in…
