Visualising Ethiopia’s Economic Leadership (and Challenges) in the Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa has historically been one of the world’s most unstable regions, with internal strife, secessionism, interstate war, terrorism and piracy dominating...
Can these 6 worldwide Google search trends predict the 2020 US presidential election?
Whilst international observers are commonly deployed in fragile or new democracies in the developing world, elections in the developed world are viewed from outside,...
To Silence the Guns, Africa Should Tap its Diaspora
For the year 2020, the African Union,
chaired by South Africa, will pursue as its principal aim the silencing of the
guns. It has its work...
Worse than Oil? The Geopolitics of the Banana
Attracting encroachments to national sovereignty by rapacious Washington-connected multinational corporations and the meddling attentions of their powerful home country; stunting reform and economic development...
Africa and the World Bank: Why it’s Not Too Late
African countries are in a developmental conundrum; they have seen economic reversals in the wake (and arguably because) of the World Bank and yet...
The Contours of China-Africa Relations
Among the fulcrum points of contemporary international affairs, the relationship between China and the more than fifty countries that make up Africa is among...
How the War on Terror Brought China and Africa Closer
The war on terror, perhaps like the cold war in the latter half of the twentieth century, is a defining feature of the current...
The French Elections and the Much-Need Change in Relations with Africa (That Won’t Come)
On February 14th and March 21st, the two front-runners in the French national election to be held in late April and early May of...
There Will Always Be Spanish Catalonia
On October 6th 2016, the Parliament of Catalonia designated the 17th of September 2017 as the date in which the population of that region...
Democracy, Statecraft and the Partitions of Poland, 1772-1795
"Poland, as a government over local sovereigns, might not improperly be taken notice of. Nor could any proof more striking be given of the...