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The Quad was made for 2020
The ‘Quad’ meeting of Indian, Japanese, US and Australian foreign ministers in Tokyo earlier this week has resulted in the usual suspects saying the usual things.…
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A hero in the fight against the world’s longest-running pandemic
For the last 25 years, Dr. Firdausi Qadri has advocated for an affordable vaccine to save lives from cholera. While all of us are focused on…
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Politics behind plexiglass
The vice-presidential debate maintained the focus on the US administration’s disastrous mishandling of the pandemic The prevailing wisdom says that vice-presidential debates are merely sideshows to…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-8 October, 2020
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Post-Pandemic Geopolitics
Estimating the long-term effect of the current pandemic is not an exact prediction of the future, but an exercise in weighing probabilities and adjusting current policies.…
Analysis
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: What is at Stake?
Three questions to Richard Giragosian Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous and landlocked disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The region is ethnically Armenian, and run by self-proclaimed…
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Why human rights should guide responses to the global pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has killed over a million people globally and disrupted healthcare and political systems, economies, social bonds and religious practices. What can South Africa’s…
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Can we bank on the Quad?
Foreign ministers from Australia, the United States, Japan and India met in Tokyo on Tuesday for what was only the second formal ministerial meeting of the…
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Difficult days await Saudi citizens
Increased unemployment, expanding poverty rates, a growing deficit in the public budget, a significant decline in general revenues, foreign exchange reserves and public reserves, stagnation in…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 7 October, 2020
Analysis
Why Biden will (still) win
Donald Trump’s diagnosis doesn’t change the electoral fundamentals Donald Trump has just created the biggest October surprise in American electoral history, and we won’t know for…
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Five years of the refugee crisis: did Merkel ‘manage’?
Now that the initial chaos has subsided, some are painting an overly rosy picture. Five years ago, faced with Europe’s refugee crisis, German chancellor Angela Merkel…