Apr 18, 20195 minThe Benefits of Minilateral Diplomacy Gordon Ahl Prior to the start of the 21st century, multilateral diplomacy largely took a “maxilateral” form in which institutions like the UN saw inclusivity...
Apr 15, 20195 minDemocracy without Demos? The EU Won't Survive Without Truly European ElectionsKenneth Stiller This year will see the ninth elections to the European Parliament (EP). Before 1979, delegates selected among national MPs acted as the EP. T...
Apr 13, 20195 minEvaporating Time: Cooperative Solutions to Egypt’s Water ProblemAlan Grad A brief look at the news headlines regarding Egypt tells a story of poor governance, extrajudicial killings, military brutality, oil exports and a ...
Apr 11, 20195 minKatowice 2018: Progress or Stalemate? Hannah Hodges The 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, was meant to present a united front of world leaders committed to tackli...
Apr 5, 20195 minBetween A Rock and a Hard Place: The WTO in a Competitive Age Nicholas Contas Monaco The international order that emerged after the Cold War rested upon two complementary pillars: relative harmony among the great powers...
Apr 5, 20194 minCreating Dissent: How Technology is Transforming the Russian Opposition Sofya Sudets February 24th, 1848, Paris: King Louis-Philippe is overthrown, and the Second French Republic is proclaimed. Within one-month protest spread acr...
Jan 24, 20195 minEast, West or Afar? The Visegrad Group and the Future of Central Europe 📷 Sasha Thompson In 1991, the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary met to form the Visegrad Group, an alliance of central European countries throwi...
Jan 24, 20195 minWhat Next for Malaysia? The Temptations and Opportunities of Reform.📷 Thomas Benson Malaysia’s dramatic general election in May 2018 attracted worldwide attention for its multiple paradoxes. The incumbent right-wing party, B...
Jan 7, 20195 minDemocracy with Rwandan Characteristics: Rwanda in the Footsteps of Singapore and China📷 Matthew MacGeoch In March 2018, around 1,600 people gathered in the Rwandan capital of Kigali for the second Next Einstein Forum (NEF), a science and tech...
Jan 7, 20195 minInverting Inequality: Can America’s New Left Turn the Tide on Inequality?📷 Julia Pieza America’s endemic inequality problem is now more acute than ever. We heard it before: the 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, but wha...
Dec 25, 20185 minThe New Middle-East: Order or Chaos?📷 Adam Wall “History is a cyclic poem, written by time upon the memories of man”. Percy Shelley In 1956 geopolitical reality collided with the illusion of A...
Dec 25, 20185 minIndonesia’s Democratic Transition: Twenty Years On📷 Basil Bowdler Twenty years ago Indonesia saw decades of military rule under the dictator Suharto collapse amid rampant inflation and violent secessionist ...
Dec 17, 20185 minSurfacing Dissent: The Myth of a Global Rules-Based Liberal Order📷 Daria-Ioana Sipos Enter 2018: Trump, Brexit and the rise of China. Fears are emerging about the collapse of the liberal order and what a new world order i...
Dec 17, 20185 min“Blood and Water Cannot Flow Together”: South Asia Must Cooperate to Address Climate Change📷 Emma Wells Climate change is a formidable and growing threat to South Asia. The region comprises less than four percent of the world’s land area but is ho...
Dec 9, 20185 minChanging of the Guard: Warring Influences in Pakistan📷 Gareth Hynes and Tanyah Hameed China and the US increasingly find themselves vying for dominance in world affairs. This year has seen tensions between the...
Dec 9, 20186 minChina’s Belt and Road: Threat or Opportunity for the Liberal Order?📷 Giuseppe Spatafora In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the idea of building a ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’ across Eurasia. After a few months, he...
Dec 6, 20184 minA New Economic Order: A Malign or Benign Influence on Developing Economies?📷 Grace Davis The world today is a far cry from that of 50 years ago – the fragile relations between our political unions, and the rise of protectionism and...
Dec 6, 20185 minA Bolivarian Black Hole: Venezuela’s Extinguished Cry for Change📷 Hannah Hodges 2018 has witnessed the establishment of a new political order in Mexico and Brazil. Mexico elected its first leftist leader in 30 years, and...
Nov 28, 20185 minCollaboration and Competition: International Scientific Links in a New OrderSebastian Wright This is a time of change in international affairs. The relations between countries are increasingly marked by confrontation and distrust. Th...
Nov 28, 20185 minCybersecurity: Individual Nuisance or Systemic Threat?Thomas Rizvi In an era where vast quantities of personal data are stored in internet-connected devices, many individuals are concerned about their privacy – ...