World Affairs
Does the Pendulum Swing Away from Repression?
| December 2, 2022
There is hope that the erosion of democratic and free societies has been somewhat stemmed
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Tag: Philippines
Opinion
Indian Ocean Realities 2022
| July 22, 2022
New realities and strategic rethink have superseded older visions of the Indian Ocean’s strategic importance to economies around much of the globe
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Opinion
Biden’s Africa policy & EU Global Gateway Initiative
| November 23, 2021
What do these geopolitical shifts harbinger for our own strategic interests in the Indian Ocean? Any reshuffle of some magnitude, presents risks but also opens opportunities
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Media
Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social media
| October 12, 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two courageous journalists who have faced repression and death by doing their work
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The Conversation
Lots of IMF programmes are never completed – because they’re unworkable
| July 20, 2021
IMF programmes run the risk of having too many conditions. This may drive countries into financial disaster. And back to the IMF again
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Law & Order
Fishing for drug barons
| November 12, 2018
No one is suggesting that we go the Philippines way though some people would gleefully lay their hands on criminals…
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