President Lula at the opening of the UN General Assembly last week: the challenge for Brazil is to maintain political independence without taking sides in the dispute over the new global hegemony between China and the United States.
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Monica Herz, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Giancarlo Summa, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
The war in Ukraine is both a symptom and a cause of a paralysing crisis in the international system. It is up to the Global South to reform the multilateral system.
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The relationship between South Africa and the West, especially the US, has a complex history. Not least because the US designated those fighting the apartheid regime, as terrorists.
Voting at the United Nations General Assembly special session on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Namibia’s refusal to condemn Russia undermines the credibility of its claims to support sovereignty, territorial integrity, and self-determination of all nations.
While restrictions on civil and political liberties may be necessary to protect lives, human rights law requires that they go no further than what’s strictly necessary to achieve this goal.
Many political issues in the 2020 US election are domestic. But black resistance to white supremacy has long had global repercussions.
As president, Trump has cultivated close relations with autocratic leaders while distancing the U.S. from its traditional allies in Europe and Asia.
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Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In 2016 Trump promised to ‘shake the rust off America’s foreign policy.’ Four years later, it’s clearer what that looks like: a US that sits on the sidelines of world crises and collaborations alike.
French soldiers patrol in armoured personnel carriers during the Barkhane operation in northern Burkina Faso in 2019.
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More than 20 years after the shift from unilateralism to multilateralism, it is reasonable to wonder how multilateral France’s ‘new interventionism’ really is.
Environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion protest in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Cyclone Idai showed just how unprepared SADC is to respond to major natural disasters.
A US-China grand bargain makes sense on the mutually beneficial assumption it would lay the foundations for a bilateral world order.
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The power dynamics in the World Bank have changed dramatically.
A World Bank in sync with Donald Trump’s views about climate change and multilateralism would probably help to increase Chin’s role in international development and finance.
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