Europe must open up to new ideas about the secular state
Jan 17, 2017 14:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Religion is one of the toughest challenges facing modern secular societies in their search for identity, equality and cohesion. Its increasingly a stronger source of identity than nationality or ethnicity for minorities...
Global Geo-political Series: Germany retaliates on Trumps comments
Jan 17, 2017 10:59 am UTC| Commentary
Donald Trumps comments that the European Union is a vehicle for Germany and predicted that the United Kingdom wont be the last country to leave the European Union, there were an array of responses from the German side. Mr....
Global Geo-political Series: Trump slams Germany ahead of inauguration
Jan 16, 2017 09:56 am UTC| Commentary
With just days to go to the inauguration, US President-elect Donald Trump slammed the European Union and its largest economy Germany by saying that the European Union is a vehicle for Germany in an interview with Michael...
How to reclaim identity politics as a positive political force
Jan 14, 2017 03:19 am UTC| Insights & Views
Identity has been one of the most decisive and divisive political phenomena of the past 12 months. A particular understanding of national identity provided a focus for discontent with the EU ahead of the UKs Brexit...
How will Mexico deal with The Donald?
Jan 13, 2017 15:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views
What is Mexicos plan for facing incoming US president Donald Trump, whose presidential campaign included heated anti-Mexican rhetoric? How is the countrys government preparing for threatened changes to the US-Mexico...
Trump, Putin and the new international order
Jan 13, 2017 04:13 am UTC| Insights & Views
If it werent quite so serious, it might be amusing. President-elect Donald Trump the words are still rather difficult to believe prefers to protect the reputation of one of the US perennial foreign policy rivals, rather...
Putin, the political technologist
Jan 12, 2017 08:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The 35-page dossier published by Buzzfeed alleging collusion and conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian state in pursuit of what the Kremlin calls active measures against Hillary Clinton not to mention the...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects