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Japan-Africa: Indivisible Knot for Accelerating Trade and Development
Japan has one combined distinctive goal on the African agenda—investment, trade, and development. This was indicated explicitly in most all speeches and presentations at...
Is it Time for a European Army?
Many have anticipated Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska with great attention last week (8/19/2025). After all, it was the first time that both...
Within France Recognition of Palestine as a State: Is Disarming Hamas the Sole Answer?
Last July, on the 25th to be exact, Emmanuel Macron announced his stance to finally recognise the state of Palestine on his social media...
Trump has won as Europe strives to cling to its last vestige of glory
The Alaska Summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin took place on August 15, 2025. The outcome of the...
Indonesia’s Integrity Imperative and ASEAN’s Future
The viral claim that ASEAN warned Indonesia of possible disintegration by 2030 due to endemic corruption was swiftly debunked. No such statement appeared in...
Peace, But At What Price? The Struggles to Secure Ukraine’s Future
As of July 20th, 2025, debate over security guarantees for Ukraine has become central focus of ongoing peace discussions following the Trump-Putin Summit in...
Peace Through War: Western Pressure and Iran’s Turn to the East
After Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 13, 2025 (Operation “Sunrise of the Lions”), the U.S. once again demonstrated its willingness for...
Forecasting the Next World War—Between Theory and Practice
Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who do not learn history are condemned to repeat it.” The truth is, even when we do learn history,...
Geopolitics vs. Development: G20-Africa Pushes a New Vision for the Global South
In an interview with Modern Diplomacy in mid-August 2025, Ms. Tandiwe Thelma Mgxwati, Minister Plenipotentiary and Charge d'Affaires a.i. at the South African Embassy,...
What does the US’s foreign aid withdrawal mean for the Pacific region?
Following his victory in the 2024 U.S. elections, Donald Trump re-entered the presidential office as a highly controversial figure. In the fields of foreign...