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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Innocents of Nigeria
A little over a year since Boko Haram kidnapped over 200 school girls from Chibok in North West Nigeria, news of a success story against the Islamic extremist group has once again catapulted the nation...
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India’s White Elephant: Fighting Corruption
Cricket is India’s national pastime, its great tamasha – a Hindi word for ‘entertainment’. It is to India as football is to Brazil. Thus, the inaugural match of the newly established Twenty20 Indian...
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Hong Kong Protesters: The West’s democracy seeking heroes or China’s childish...
Not since the likes of Tiananmen Square has so much global attention been focused on a protest on Chinese soil. Remembering the unfortunate consequences of the government’s crack down on the events of...
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The Pitfalls of Hyper-Connectivity
The latter part of the 20th century birthed an invention that would shape 21st century society. The invention of the Internet changed how we interact, communicate, and transfer information. The world...
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Iran’s Population Machine
We are not a country of 75 million, we have the capacity to become at least 150 million people, if not more. –Ayatollah Khamenei, October 2014. With the talk of nuclear development clouding deeper...
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The Non-Islamic Non-State
A millennium ago, the Middle East and its great cities such as Baghdad and Damascus led in the creation of many innovations that came to define the modern world. With their foundations rooted in...
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Will This Ceasefire Hold?
The conflict between Israel and Palestine is nothing new, but the escalation last summer was tremendously significant. It began with the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in June 2014, which...
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Why Scotland Rejected Independence: Two Sides to Every Story
Arguably the most significant event in Scotland’s political history, the 18th September 2014 independence referendum was a remarkable triumph of democracy. It succeeded in bringing together groups of...
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North Korea: Outlawed and Hurting, But Is It Enough?
The past year has seen a series of seemingly conflicting developments in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, more commonly known as North Korea. January 2014 saw the release of a disturbing...
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Europe’s Southern Borders: Where Instability and Anti-Immigration Sentiment...
There are more than fifty million refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons around the world[1]. They flee conflict, poverty, and persecution, often with no definite destination. Many...
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Dangerous Year in Reproductive Health
When China renounced its notorious one-child policy in October, it seemed like draconian family planning rules were a thing of the past.[1] One of the most powerful countries in the world had finally...
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Climate Security for Whom?
From 30 November to 12 December, the eyes of the world were on Paris as international leaders negotiated a strategy to address climate change. The resulting agreement, signed by all the parties to the...
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Birds of a feather? Burundi and Rwanda: the dangers of ignoring Africa’s...
In 1994, the world stood and watched as Rwanda burned. Granted, there was little that the international community could have done to stem or prevent the violence, short of travelling back at least...
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Chaos in Calais – The Value of Bare Necessities in the Jungle
2015 was undoubtedly the annus horribilis of the modern-day migrant crisis. Epitomised by the harrowing image of three-year old Alan Kurdi, who drowned alongside his family on their way to Europe in...
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Love Won? LGBT Rights in 2015
‘If you all agree with the question then we’ll have nothing to discuss.’[1] Thus spoke a bemused David Dimbleby on BBC’s Question Time in Belfast in January when faced with the exceptionally rare...
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The Battle for Afghanistan: a New Contender?
Just as the term of US ambassador James Cunningham was coming to a close in Afghanistan, ISIS announced the start of theirs. In the summer of 2014, ISIS trumpeted their arrival by hanging 12 Taliban...
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Year in Review: The European Defence Industry
Successively monopolised by the Greek debt crisis and massive migrant influx, the European Union (EU) had little time in 2015 for important announcements concerning its defence policy and weapons...
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Sub-Saharan Africa and China: A Fairy Tale Match?
It seems that 2015 has been the year of Africa: Africa rising and Africa not rising. Yet, as the public is hearing more about the continent from news outlets, the discourse often centres on China and...
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War and Terror: The Removal of Dictators in the Twenty-First Century
10 September 2001 was a relatively normal day. The Mayor of Campinas in Brazil, Antônio da Costa Santos was murdered as he drove home,[1] American rapper DJ Uncle Al was shot dead,[2] and Charles...
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2015 Saudi Arabian Municipal Elections: Human Rights in Action?
On 12 December 2015, the world witnessed Saudi Arabia fulfilling the promise of its late king, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. For the first time ever, Saudi women were granted the right to vote and...
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