Kim Jong-un: Too Young for Coronation?
Any serious blunder of inexperience by the new leader in connection with redirecting the country’s economic and diplomatic affairs could lead to irreversible challenges by the competing elite groups in North Korea, divided largely into the military brass and the technocrats.
The Arab Spring and Turkey: Can a ‘Turkish Model’ be Proposed?
The most important aspect of Turkey’s potential to become a model for the rest of the region is her ability to uphold secularism while trying to become more democratic despite the fact that there is currently a conservative government ruling Turkey with its origins in Turkey’s Islamist tradition.
Ill-informed or entrepreneurial? Chinese traders in Serbia
The phenomenon of Chinese migration to Serbia, which is one of their newest migration destinations in Europe, is hardly ever mentioned in migration literature. By developing transnational links and translocal livelihood strategies, Chinese traders are transforming disadvantages of both sending and destination areas into opportunities.
Famine in Somalia: A Man Made Disaster
The Somali people, for decades pawns in a catastrophic game of geopolitics, are paying the ultimate price for a counterterrorism policy that has exacerbated the very threat it sought to quell. Now, when western assistance is truly merited, the gates appear firmly shut.
Religion and Faith-based Organisations in Africa: the forgotten actors
Modernity-inspired international development has often failed when not taking into account local context, culture and belief. Failing to consider religion risks the failure of enduring social change. This seems a more productive and appropriate way of framing societies and people’s lives, rather than suggesting secularity should supersede other forms of faith.
An End in Sight? The War on Terror and the Future of World Order
Western democracies must accept China as an equal partner in managing the global order, an order that has until recently borne the distinctive imprint of Western interests. The task of accommodating China will form the defining challenge of the 21st century.
Political Economy of Human Rights: The Quest for Relevance and Realization
Advancing human rights to the level of global justice requires more than the current circus of councils, commissions, and committees with tedious documents deliberated in lengthy meetings. Coming closer to people in their daily pursuit of liberties and livelihoods is the most productive perspective for progress in the 21st century.
What Happens After the US Passes a Debt Limit Deal?
Seniors and the elderly are going to pay for this new “American Austerity”, those who can least afford it. Lets face facts: if there are no revenue increases, there will have to be cuts in pretty much every part of the US budget. If there is no cut in military spending, it will be you and me, the average American taxpayer who will feel the cuts. Sadly, nothing good will come out of any of this.
Conflict as System Realignment: How Overloaded Systems Reset Themselves
Recasting conflict as a form of systemic realignment shifts the focus away from individual leaders, favouring of a deeper understanding of structural limits.
Circular Agroecology for a Resilient Europe
To achieve genuine strategic autonomy, the EU must build a resilient, sustainable, and equitable food system.
