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As the world moves ahead to mark International Women’s Day, the clock on women’s rights is moving backwards. All of us are paying the price. The cascading crises of recent years have
Technology has developed so much that it has virtually abolished the traditional way of business decision-making. Entrepreneurs who ‘looked ahead’ and ‘foreseen developments’ have now been replaced by entrepreneurs who utilise the
During the Eurozone crisis, Germany imposed its philosophy of strict austerity on addressing the structural economic problems in the Eurozone. Furthermore, the architecture of the Eurozone was faulty, as was pointed out
The absence of an international authority to enforce international law is all too evident in the Republic of Cyprus. The United Nations behaves like Pontius Pilate regarding the invasion and occupation of
Russia’s war against Ukraine is a week old, but its consequences are already reverberating across the globe: it has upended international relations, left Moscow isolated, united a previously divided West, and raised
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Putin’s sucker punch to the West could be seen coming from space, but the pugilists in the ring didn’t think he would risk a hammer blow at the heart of democracy in
According to John Mearsheimer, the eminent American international relations scholar, “what money is to economics, power is to international relations”. Indeed, the two major assumptions/tenets of rationality and maximisation, either of wealth
Sanctions are ineffective; solidarity is non-existent, and you’re on your own. This conclusion is as relevant to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to instil a pro-Kremlin regime change in Kyiv, as much as
