What will Trump's foreign policy look like?
Nov 15, 2016 10:48 am UTC| Insights & Views
Trying to predict Donald Trumps foreign policy is a complex exercise, which inevitably produces vertigo in those bold enough to undertake it. In the past year, the president-elect has offered so many vague, simplistic...
After Trump's win, can China dislodge Asian nations from the US orbit?
Nov 15, 2016 10:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
It will be in Asia the economic centre of the 21st century where the future of Pax Americana (the peace that has ensued as a result of US hegemony) will be decided. This continued existence of this peace will depend,...
Cyprus edges towards reunification after landmark talks
Nov 14, 2016 21:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views
For many, the decades-long conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots over how they can live together is a graveyard of diplomatic effort. The issue dates back to the 1950s, when the demise of British colonialism...
How Brexit and Trump will affect James Bond
Nov 14, 2016 21:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views
James Bond will likely next grace cinema screens towards the end of 2018. Whether he will inhabit a filmic world in which the UK is no longer a member of the European Union and Donald Trump is the US president is yet to be...
Global Geo-political Series: EU’s emergency Trump meeting suffers key opt outs
Nov 14, 2016 10:29 am UTC| Commentary
Several key members have opted out of the European Unions emergency meeting in response to Donald Trumps victory in the US election in November. The meeting was called to align the interest of the members of the Union in...
The Trump presidency may not be all doom and gloom for the region
Nov 10, 2016 22:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Australias security and prosperity is dependent on the maintenance of a particular type of world order. We know this because it has been clearly articulated in Australian defence strategy since the end of the second world...
The wall and the beast: Trump’s triumph from the Mexican side of the border
Nov 10, 2016 10:38 am UTC| Insights & Views
Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States, even though political pundits predicted that he would not even win the Republican presidential nomination. In the end, more 59 million Americans voted for...
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