Globalization has peaked and de-globalization is increasingly likely to occur, according to economists at Capital Economists. China, they argue, will not be able to overtake the US as the largest economy. Dr Zheng Wang, Associate Professor of Economics at De...
After the British general election on Thursday, London is on a collision course with Edinburgh, as the First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) Nicola Sturgeon has announced a formal request for a new referendum...
President Evo Morales was deposed on November 10 after almost three weeks of protests. The coup d’etat was backed by the US government. Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, had run for a third consecutive time in office. This was following...
“It doesn’t matter what Scotland votes,” the woman calls out and begins to walk away before returning. “We never get what we vote for.” Speaking to voters, cabinet ministers and political commentators, barely a few days away from the United...
On November 20, Ethiopia’s Sidama people realised a dream decades old. Queuing from dawn until dusk to cast their ballots, more than two million voted in a watershed referendum on secession. Almost all backed a bid to break away. In...
The Putinian Pax has been guaranteeing the pacification and return to stability of Russia’s most problematic regions since the end of the Second Chechen War but, under the climate of apparent peace, a new season of separatism seems ready to...
President Erdogan of Turkey visited the White House last week. At the meeting, Erdogan handed back a letter to Trump in which the American president told him not to be a “tough guy” and a “fool” by launching an assault...
On Oct. 29, the US House of Representative voted in favour of a resolution to recognise the murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians by the Turkish government as a genocide. Senator Robert Menendez, who has co-authored resolutions to recognise...
Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall that had divided Germany for 28 years fell. In the minds of many Germans, however, the Wall remains an integral part as it continues to symbolise the story of two peoples – to this...
The 9th of November marks the completion of thirty years since that autumn afternoon, when the Berlin communist authorities announced the lifting of travel restrictions for the citizens of the German Democratic Republic, signalling the beginning of the end of...
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