South Africa is presented with opportunities and problems created by the Trump-Musk regime The USA is a preponderant power—it essentially dominates almost every aspect of international affairs. It is also South...
Washington DC
From regime change to fostering strong democratic institutions
Implications for American democracy promotion and influence in Africa The 2020 US election meltdown may have dented the role and influence of America as the chief promoter and protector of democratisation in Africa....
A new administration in a new political environment
The USA in the Horn of Africa The 9/11 terrorist attack changed the United States security strategy globally. The event took place a decade after the end of the Cold War and before the US and its allies in the West had...
What black scholars can teach the post-pandemic world
History shows that diaspora thinkers have had distinctive insight into the nature and operation of the geopolitics of place and race As we begin to consider the global transformations bound to follow the upheavals of...
Africa and the ‘grey market’
Transnational brokering: a complex web Businesses and criminal syndicates have both violated United Nations arms embargoes, sometimes with the collusion of corrupt state officials Arms brokering or inter-mediation is a...
A long and winding road
China: the special relationship Economic and political ties between Africa and China have led to infrastructural development on a monumental scale but their roots go back millennia No one knows exactly how long ago the...
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