China’s Economic Interests in the GCC: Economic Gains over Politics
In May 2017, China succeeded in extracting scalable quantities of methane hydrates ("inflammable ice") in the South China Sea.
The Gulf of Guinea: A New Strain of Piracy
It’s an important maritime route for commercial shipping lines from Europe and America to West, Central, and Southern Africa.
ICC Probe in Palestine Brings Some Hope to the Palestinians at Last
Apartheid did not end with South Africa – a fact recognized by the inclusion of the crime of apartheid in the ICC Rome Statute.
All-Out-War between Ethiopia and Sudan on the Doorstep?
First, the current confrontation is happening after Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia and South Sudan gained independence from Sudan.
Is the UAE-Saudi Political Alliance Sustainable?
On the contrary, during the past months, the UAE intensified and strengthened diplomatic relations with Greece, Armenia, and the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus (GCASC), all of which have problems with Turkey.
Modern-Day Orientalists Have Never Understood the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring was contagious and inspired protest from Wall Street to South America.
The Insurrection and Its Discontents: American Exceptionalism Revisited
From the genocide of the Native Americans, to the enslaving of millions of Africans, to the never-ending interventions in South America - starting with the Monroe doctrine of 1823 - all the way to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, American exceptionalism has always served the purpose of reinforcing the notion that America possesses a moral, divine right to do as it pleases for the betterment of mankind.
Morocco Lost One of Its “Sacred” Causes with the Israel Normalization
The withdrawal of Mauritania from its zone, that is the southern half of Western Sahara, in 1979, pushed King Hassan II to occupy the zone militarily in order to prevent the Polisario from using it for their own benefit.
Should We Care About the New Variant of COVID-19?
We should note that another variant that appeared in South Africa known as 501.
Can Muslims Reclaim a Unified Political Bloc on the International Stage?
A number of Muslim countries in Southeast Asia have pushed back boats of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar.
Has the Libyan Civil War Come to an End?
This is essentially what South Africa did at the end of Apartheid.
Making Sense of Hunger Strikes and Symbolic Politics
The Israeli leadership learned, especially, from the collapse of South African apartheid not to take symbolic politics lightly.
Slavery and Colonialism Go Deeper than Toppling Statues
Statueclasm
The toppling of statues that represent slavery advocates (such as the recent dramatic falling of Edward Colston in Bristol, UK) or those associated with General(s) or soldiers of the Confederate State in the American Civil War (mostly in the Southern USA) has become another manifestation of public anger and the disconnect between the icons of a place, the complex history and the sentiment of significant portions of the populace.
Corona Is For All And There Are Lessons To Be Learnt Globally
More crucially, the virus is also spreading in Africa with countries like Kenya and South Africa imposing curfews on their citizens.
Restoring Order in the Eastern Mediterranean: Understanding Turkey’s Activism in Libya
Following the agreement, to which countries such as Greece, Egypt, the Greek Administration of Southern Cyprus (GASC) and Israel reacted negatively, international pressure on the government in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, increased.
Defense, Trade and Foreign Policy: An Interview with CAST Director Ruslan Pukhov
This is happening at a time when the global market for arms trade is becoming denser as countries such as Turkey and South Korea, which were importers 20 years ago, but are now successful arms exporters.
Calls to Reform the UN Security Council Are Getting Louder
For approximately twenty-five years, an increasing number of countries such as Germany, Japan, South Africa, Canada, Brazil and Turkey, have insisted on a reform of the Security Council.
Europe owes Turkey for its Security, it is time the EU takes Negotiations Seriously
In order to develop alternatives to Russian gas and oil, the EU previously tried to promote the development of a southern energy corridor aimed at connecting European markets to natural sources of gas in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Middle East.
From the Nixon-Reagan Tapes to Trump’s Tweets: Racism Has a Tradition in US Politics
However, African, Caribbean and South American immigrants – documented or undocumented – are an essential component of the America’s labour force, service industry and economy.
The African Anthropocene: The Making of a Western Environmental Crisis
In Guateng province, South Africa’s kernel of Gold, Diamond and Uranium mining, the landscape is pierced by hundreds of quarries, shafts and abandoned tunnels.
