What game theory says about dealing with North Korea
May 31, 2017 07:55 am UTC| Insights & Views
North Korea fired its third missile in three weeks on May 29, once again drawing protests from South Korea and Japan. Tensions have been rising in the region since the start of the year when Kim Jong-Uns regime started a...
Global Geo-political Series: Trump escalates tensions with Germany via tweeter
May 30, 2017 11:51 am UTC| Commentary
After the G7 leaders failed to converge on the issue of Paris Climate Accord, and the German Chancellor announced attending a rally in Germany that Europe can no longer rely on the UK and the United States and must take...
Global Geo-political Series: Brief summary of President Trump’s first foreign trip
May 29, 2017 10:25 am UTC| Commentary
The US President Donald Trump just concluded his first foreign trip over the weekend; a trip that was full of grandeur, historic as well as controversial in some areas. In this trip, President Trump and his surrogates...
May 29, 2017 07:32 am UTC| Commentary
Despite some talks of reconciliations and indications of diplomatic efforts, the war rhetoric in the Korean peninsula is running high. The North Korean regime under Kim Jong Un has continued to test short and long-range...
Is China the potential driver of a new wave of globalisation?
May 27, 2017 04:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Since the 2008 global financial crisis and with a particular impetus after Xi Jinping became president in 2012 Chinas foreign policy has been characterised by a departure from a keeping a low profile approach to one of...
Are we really seeing the rise of a 'new jihad'? It's just not that simple
May 27, 2017 04:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
In a BBC interview just after the recent Manchester suicide bombing, French scholar Gilles Kepel offered a three-stage chronology of the development jihadi activism. The first stage he identified emerged in 1979, around...
Diplomat in chief: How did Trump do on his first Middle East visit?
May 27, 2017 04:01 am UTC| Insights & Views
President Donald Trump received both pageantry and a warm reception on his first trip to the Middle East. Whether bowing his head to receive the King Abdulaziz al Saud Collar from Saudi Arabian King Salman, gathering...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight