We are only halfway there

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We are halfway through what has been a chaotic year that many people can hardly wait to see end. To even describe 2020 as chaotic might come across as...

Democracy’s Receding Trend

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The name Maria Ressa may not mean anything to most people. However, she is a Filipino, a former CNN bureau chief, 2018 Time person of the year, and ...

How to clothe a Naked Empire

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My last article was written against the backdrop of racial tensions in the United States (US) and America’s increasing impatience with or disregard ...

The Empire is Naked

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“The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a cautionary tale of an emperor whose vanity caused him to believe that he was adorned in the finest fabric, when...

What about afterward?

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Amid the global novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, one consolation is that this too shall pass. For some of us, we are hoping that newer and bette...

Survival of the Smallest

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In my last article, I quoted former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, who recently expressed concern about “a continued slow but steady drift t...

The drift towards international anarchy

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The default meaning of anarchy in the context of international affairs is that there is no world government or no organising principle (or sets of pri...

Fuel for Thought: The Good and Bad of Cheap Oil

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Just over two weeks ago, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil crashed to negative US$40 per barrel. At the time of writing, the price had in...

Food Security and Reimagining Caribbean Economies

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I HAVE written previously that the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed and reinforced vulnerabilities in the economies of many ...

Are we at the end of history again?

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In February 1989, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama gave a talk on International Relations at the University of Chicago. Fukuyama’s ...