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What If the Borders Were Just Lines on a Map?
At some point in the journey, somewhere between exhaustion and quiet reflection, I found myself asking a simple question. Why is it easier for animals to move across Africa than it is for Africans themselves? By Kimberley Khasiala Most of my friends had warned me. “Just take a flight to Lusaka. It’s faster, safer, less…
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Ukraine’s Security Deals With The Gulf Are Worth Paying Attention To
The combined effect of the UAE and Saudi Arabia exerting pressure on Russia could really harm its interests. Zelensky dispatched drone experts and interceptor drones to the Gulf Kingdoms last month to aid them in thwarting Iranian attacks of the sort that Ukraine became accustomed to over the past four years due to Russia using…
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Where Power Is Really Decided: Bangladesh, the Philippines, and the New Frontline of U.S.- China Rivalry
“The global power is no longer negotiated only between great powers. It is executed in the territories where their influences collide.” Opening – the conflict on the ground The rivalry between the United States and China is no longer a geopolitical abstraction or a debate between distant powers. It has moved onto the concrete ground…
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Emmanuel Macron’s Paradoxical Speech on Nuclear Deterrence: A Step Back and a Wild Rush Forward
President Emmanuel Macron’s solemn speech on French nuclear deterrence, delivered on March 2, 2026, from the Île Longue submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) base, manages the remarkable feat of combining, in a “both-at-once” manner, a clear retreat from the traditional doctrine inherited from Gaullism and Mitterrandism and a dangerous headlong rush toward an increased risk of…
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The Weight on Delcy Rodriguez
As I was leaving the University of the Communes in Tocuyito, after a joyful and uplifting visit, an earnest young Professor came up to me and pulled me aside. Very quietly, he asked me what was going to happen. A number of the students were terrified there would be regime change and they, picked as…
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Endangered Sundarbans: Will the Climate Crisis Destroy Bangladesh’s Natural Shield?
By G M Forhadul Mozumdar (Dhaka Bureau) The Sundarbans, the world’s largest undivided mangrove forest and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is now in a battle for survival. Due to the devastating impacts of climate change, this ‘natural shield’ of Bangladesh faces an existential threat, pushing the lives of millions in the southwestern coastal region…
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Bangladesh clings to fuel stocks as Middle East war triggers panic and smuggling fears
by Asif Showkat Kallol Long queues have returned to petrol stations across Bangladesh as the conflict in the Middle East disrupts global energy supplies, sparking panic buying and allegations of hoarding. Government officials insist there is no real shortage. On Tuesday, joint secretary Monir Hossain Chowdhury, spokesman for the energy and mineral resources division, told…
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Understanding geopolitical reality
If there is one area of political knowledge that remains poorly understood, it is geopolitics. This field examines international power relations (domination and resistance, colonization, imperialism, war) as well as the strategies that actors deploy to preserve or strengthen their dominance and exert control over territories, resources, or strategic spaces (buffer zones, spheres of influence,…
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When War Becomes Content, We Feel Before We Understand
As political communication adopts the language of spectacle, war is increasingly encountered as sensation before meaning—altering the sequence through which violence is perceived, understood, and judged. A word keeps appearing across political commentary and media critique, as if it might contain the problem: childish. It surfaces with remarkable consistency—leaders described as immature, as adolescent, as…
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Gardens Instead of Machine Guns – Making Peace through Organic Farming
How a mayor in the Philippines resolved an armed conflict through organic farming – by conquering hunger. Where previously a bitter civil war raged, there is now no hunger, almost no poverty and virtually no crime. What a Filipino mayor has achieved with his “Arms to Farms” program in Kauswagan, a town of 27,000 inhabitants…