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A Win for the Many: Mamdani, Populism, and the Future of Democracy
The year 2025 proved to be paradoxical, characterized by a convergence of both anxiety and awakening. With the return of authoritarian strongmen and the...
“The Greatest Affair of State”: Managing Risks of Nuclear Warfare
“Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the way to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered...
Tanzania’s 2025 Elections: AU and SADC Condemn Final Results
Women's empowerment was uniquely exemplified by voting for Samia Suluhu Hassan as the new president of the United Republic of Tanzania in late October...
#MeToo’s Digital Blind Spot: The Women the Movement Left Behind
This article discusses the important issues underlying the #MeToo movement that has spread across the globe. On the one hand, the #MeToo movement has...
The System Made Him Win: Mamdani, Capitalism and the Politics of Rent
Zohran Mamdani’s recent electoral win in New York was not a rupture - it was a reckoning. For many, his victory may have seemed...
The Cosmopolitan Paradox: Being a ‘Citizen of the World’ in a World Full of Inequality
In the classroom, we are trained to become global citizens who are fed noble ideas: about eternal peace, unconditional solidarity, and universal human bonds...
“Uniting for peace”: Protecting Palestine’s civilians beyond diplomacy
Two months since the New York Declaration on the Two-State Resolution has been adopted and 1 month since the ceasefire deal between Israel and...
Illusion of Supremacy or Reality of Power: Why the U.S. Cannot Wage War on China
During the past several years, war scenarios and analyses issuing from Washington have hewed to a familiar but deceptively reassuring image of the future:...
The Perfect Storm That Is the Philippines
As typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi, internationally) left over 200 Filipinos dead while affecting nearly 2 million people, President Marcos Jr declared “a state of national...
Saudi Arabia’s Pre-Trump Gambit: Defining the Price for Ties with Israel
U. S. President Donald Trump has been optimistic about Saudi Arabia potentially normalizing relations with Israel, but this is unlikely to happen during Crown...