Politics
The UAE and Qatar: Making Up
31.08.2021
The reconciliation train between the UAE and Qatar has been rapidly gathering speed. On Thursday, Emirati national security advisor and strongman Sheikh Tahnoun bin-Zayed paid a surprise visit to Doha.
20% of UK political donations come from just ten men
10.08.2021
Just ten men have made a fifth of all major political donations from individuals in the UK in the past two decades, openDemocracy can reveal.
(Not) Lost in Foresight
03.06.2021
From the perspective of policymakers, planning for the many uncertainties that the future brings is a complicated task.
Tunisia's Saied accused of 'soft coup' as he makes his latest power play
23.04.2021
Some Tunisians are asking whether the country is in the midst of a quiet, constitutional coup.
TURKEY’S TALK SHOW NATIONALISTS
20.04.2021
Turn on Turkish television on any given night, and it is likely you will meet eyes with a former general or admiral. At first blush, their steady presence as commentators on talk shows, as well as on social media, appears unremarkable.
A Tale of Two Foreign Policies: the Train-Wreck Abroad Is Bipartisan
19.03.2020
Now that the Democratic Party has apparently succeeded in getting rid of the only two voices among its presidential candidates that actually deviated from the establishment consensus, it appears that Joe Biden will be running against Donald Trump in November. To be sure, Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard are still hanging on, but the fix was in and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) made sure that Sanders would be given the death blow on Super Tuesday while Gabbard would be blocked from participating in any of the late term debates.
The Mind Builders in Africa
10.09.2019
As Africans went formal through the acquisition of western education, a critical question of that era is, before the “independence” of most African states when its much needed man power is being trained; was it the lack of interest or incompetence
