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Dialogue Little Boys Playing Dangerous Games & What Can Be Done About It

By Georgios Kostakos

State of the world: many not-so-beautiful games The FIFA World Cup ended on 19 July with an apotheosis of the Spanish national team and a resounding boo for US President Trump. Whether one agr...
Dialogue The World doesn’t just have a Leadership Crisis. It has a Moral Crisis.

By Global South Perspectives Network

The international community has become preoccupied with reforming its institutions. We debate the future of the United Nations Security Council, the composition of the G20, the legitimacy of i...

Dialogue Choosing a new UN Secretary-General in a time of uncertainty and power concentration

By Global South Perspectives Network

The process is underway to choose the new UN Secretary-General. Candidates have been declared and hearings held. With Security Council deliberations pending, the situation is revealing of the ...
Dialogue China’s Global Governance Initiative: Why the debate matters more than the blueprint

By Global South Perspectives Network

The debate over China’s Global Governance Initiative (GGI) arrives at a moment when questions surrounding global governance are becoming increasingly difficult to avoid. Institutions establish...

Dialogue Make Things Happen; Don’t Wonder What Happened

By Arthur Rubinstein

In my long (40 years), undistinguished career in marketing communications and journalism, I have had a chance to work with some very good and some not very good bosses. However, there was one ...
Dialogue The crisis in the Middle East and what it reveals about global order

By Global South Perspectives Network

There is an increasing sense that the war in the Middle East is revealing more than a crisis in the regional order. The latest escalation, where the United States and Israel attacked Iran, whi...

Dialogue Little Boys Playing Dangerous Games & What Can Be Done About It

By Georgios Kostakos

State of the world: many not-so-beautiful games The FIFA World Cup ended on 19 July with an apotheosis of the Spanish national team and a resounding boo for US President Trump. Whether one agr...

Dialogue The World doesn’t just have a Leadership Crisis. It has a Moral Crisis.

By Global South Perspectives Network

The international community has become preoccupied with reforming its institutions. We debate the future of the United Nations Security Council, the composition of the G20, the legitimacy of i...

Dialogue Choosing a new UN Secretary-General in a time of uncertainty and power concentration

By Global South Perspectives Network

The process is underway to choose the new UN Secretary-General. Candidates have been declared and hearings held. With Security Council deliberations pending, the situation is revealing of the ...

Dialogue China’s Global Governance Initiative: Why the debate matters more than the blueprint

By Global South Perspectives Network

The debate over China’s Global Governance Initiative (GGI) arrives at a moment when questions surrounding global governance are becoming increasingly difficult to avoid. Institutions establish...

Dialogue Make Things Happen; Don’t Wonder What Happened

By Arthur Rubinstein

In my long (40 years), undistinguished career in marketing communications and journalism, I have had a chance to work with some very good and some not very good bosses. However, there was one ...

Dialogue The crisis in the Middle East and what it reveals about global order

By Global South Perspectives Network

There is an increasing sense that the war in the Middle East is revealing more than a crisis in the regional order. The latest escalation, where the United States and Israel attacked Iran, whi...

Analysis Middle Powers must Stop Waiting for Permission

By Daryl Swanepoel

The international order is changing before our eyes. Great-power rivalry is once again dominating global politics. Strategic competition increasingly overshadows cooperation. International law...
Analysis The Draghi Plan: How to Make it Work

By Arthur Rubinstein

According to a report presented in 2024 by the former head of the European Central Bank and minister-of-all-trades in Italy, Mario Draghi, the EU Member States and the EU institutions need to ...

Analysis When Political Institutions Fail: Iranian Letters to Pope Leo XIV During the 2026 War

By Mohammad Taher Gholi Tabar

Introduction Wars do not only destroy cities and human lives. They also test the institutions that claim to protect humanity. When political mechanisms appear unable to prevent suffering, peop...
Analysis IMF, China and the Military: Pakistan’s Hidden Power Struggle

By Dimitra Staikou

In 2025–2026, Pakistan’s economic crisis has begun to take on characteristics far deeper than those of a conventional fiscal collapse. Behind the negotiations for new bailout packages from the...

Analysis Compassionate AI and Autonomous Weapons: Why Machines Cannot Carry the Burden of Humanity

By Aisling O'Donnell

The idea of “compassionate AI” in warfare appears paradoxical at first glance, yet it becomes analytically meaningful when defined with precision. For the purpose of this article, “compassiona...
Analysis Fossil Fuel Wars, Climate Colonialism, and Feminist Futures

By Sudha Reddy

Earth Day 2026 carried the theme “Our Power, Our Planet.” Yet from a Global South feminist perspective, Earth Day cannot remain a symbolic exercise of tree planting, corporate sustainability c...

Analysis Middle Powers must Stop Waiting for Permission

By Daryl Swanepoel

The international order is changing before our eyes. Great-power rivalry is once again dominating global politics. Strategic competition increasingly overshadows cooperation. International law...

Analysis The Draghi Plan: How to Make it Work

By Arthur Rubinstein

According to a report presented in 2024 by the former head of the European Central Bank and minister-of-all-trades in Italy, Mario Draghi, the EU Member States and the EU institutions need to ...

Analysis When Political Institutions Fail: Iranian Letters to Pope Leo XIV During the 2026 War

By Mohammad Taher Gholi Tabar

Introduction Wars do not only destroy cities and human lives. They also test the institutions that claim to protect humanity. When political mechanisms appear unable to prevent suffering, peop...

Analysis IMF, China and the Military: Pakistan’s Hidden Power Struggle

By Dimitra Staikou

In 2025–2026, Pakistan’s economic crisis has begun to take on characteristics far deeper than those of a conventional fiscal collapse. Behind the negotiations for new bailout packages from the...

Analysis Compassionate AI and Autonomous Weapons: Why Machines Cannot Carry the Burden of Humanity

By Aisling O'Donnell

The idea of “compassionate AI” in warfare appears paradoxical at first glance, yet it becomes analytically meaningful when defined with precision. For the purpose of this article, “compassiona...

Analysis Fossil Fuel Wars, Climate Colonialism, and Feminist Futures

By Sudha Reddy

Earth Day 2026 carried the theme “Our Power, Our Planet.” Yet from a Global South feminist perspective, Earth Day cannot remain a symbolic exercise of tree planting, corporate sustainability c...

Citizen Correspondent The atomic pretext in the Iran war

By Alejandro Zurita

How the nuclear issue has been manipulated for geopolitical objectives In 1968, Iran signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which seeks to prevent the proliferation of atomic wea...

Citizen Correspondent Reaching for the stars from an earth in turmoil

By Georgios Kostakos

Obscured from view by the Iran War and the generalized turmoil it has caused, with Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza and other hotspots also competing for the limelight, a major step is about to be taken f...

Citizen Correspondent Reflections on the Politics of Race and Language in a French Classroom

By Samuel Showalter

It was mid-June when the summer heat that had already settled over Paris hadn’t yet reached Normandy, when my coworker invited me to his house to celebrate his birthday. It wasn’t a big event ...

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Op-ed Dispute over Greenland: Conflict Prevention Possibilities under the UN Charter

By Georgios Kostakos and Daryl Swanepoel and Cilene Victor

Greenland has long been perceived as a remote and tranquil part of the world, a place where geopolitical storms rarely reach. Yet recent years have shown that even the Arctic’s icy expanses ar...
Op-ed The Veto isn’t going away, but it needs to be civilised

By Daryl Swanepoel

The United Nations Security Council was designed to stop the world’s worst fires. Too often, it has become the arsonist’s best friend. From Rwanda to Syria to Ukraine, the Council’s five perma...
Op-ed In partial defence of the BBC

By Georgios Kostakos

In recent days, a long-simmering dispute between US President Donald Trump and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has exploded, with Mr. Trump threatening to sue the BBC for 1 to 5 bil...

Op-ed Europe’s moral moment: A diplomatic call for justice and peace in Palestine

By Georgios Kostakos and Daryl Swanepoel

When 414 of Europe’s most experienced former diplomats, ministers and senior officials speak with one voice, the world ought to listen, and more than the world the EU institutions themselves. ...
Op-ed Hail the Peacemaker! And then what?

By Georgios Kostakos

Even without having been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, US President Donald Trump was impressively upbeat in his whirlwind trip to Israel and Egypt on 13 October 2025. He spoke extensi...
Op-ed UN General Assembly High-level Week: Can it become a high-impact week?

By Katoikos World

As customary, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) is opening its new regular session in the second half of September. World leaders are converging on New York for their High-leve...

Op-ed UN at 80: Reform or ritual?

By Daryl Swanepoel

The United Nations turns 80 at a moment when its relevance is under sharper question than at any point since its founding. Conceived in the ashes of global war, the UN was meant to embody coll...
Op-ed Nepal: The Youth says ENOUGH!

By Manan Shah

In Nepal, the small Himalayan country wedged between giants China and India, the “Gen-Z” has taken to the streets. The youth have two key demands – “the government lifting the ban on social me...
Editorials Gaza: Where the red line is getting thicker and thicker

By Katoikos World

The situation in Gaza continues to spring up surprises on us, horrible, inhuman, deadly surprises. The latest, after the relentless bombing and killing of tens of thousands of innocent Palesti...

Op-ed Dispute over Greenland: Conflict Prevention Possibilities under the UN Charter

By Georgios Kostakos

Greenland has long been perceived as a remote and tranquil part of the world, a place where geopolitical storms rarely reach. Yet recent years have shown that even the Arctic’s icy expanses ar...

Op-ed The Veto isn’t going away, but it needs to be civilised

By Daryl Swanepoel

The United Nations Security Council was designed to stop the world’s worst fires. Too often, it has become the arsonist’s best friend. From Rwanda to Syria to Ukraine, the Council’s five perma...

Op-ed In partial defence of the BBC

By Georgios Kostakos

In recent days, a long-simmering dispute between US President Donald Trump and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has exploded, with Mr. Trump threatening to sue the BBC for 1 to 5 bil...

Op-ed Europe’s moral moment: A diplomatic call for justice and peace in Palestine

By Georgios Kostakos

When 414 of Europe’s most experienced former diplomats, ministers and senior officials speak with one voice, the world ought to listen, and more than the world the EU institutions themselves. ...

Op-ed Hail the Peacemaker! And then what?

By Georgios Kostakos

Even without having been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, US President Donald Trump was impressively upbeat in his whirlwind trip to Israel and Egypt on 13 October 2025. He spoke extensi...

Op-ed UN General Assembly High-level Week: Can it become a high-impact week?

By Katoikos World

As customary, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) is opening its new regular session in the second half of September. World leaders are converging on New York for their High-leve...

Op-ed UN at 80: Reform or ritual?

By Daryl Swanepoel

The United Nations turns 80 at a moment when its relevance is under sharper question than at any point since its founding. Conceived in the ashes of global war, the UN was meant to embody coll...

Op-ed Nepal: The Youth says ENOUGH!

By Manan Shah

In Nepal, the small Himalayan country wedged between giants China and India, the “Gen-Z” has taken to the streets. The youth have two key demands – “the government lifting the ban on social me...

Editorials Gaza: Where the red line is getting thicker and thicker

By Katoikos World

The situation in Gaza continues to spring up surprises on us, horrible, inhuman, deadly surprises. The latest, after the relentless bombing and killing of tens of thousands of innocent Palesti...

Social Media

Op-ed Dispute over Greenland: Conflict Prevention Possibilities under the UN Charter

By Georgios Kostakos and Daryl Swanepoel and Cilene Victor

Greenland has long been perceived as a remote and tranquil part of the world, a place where geopolitical storms rarely reach. Yet recent years have shown that even the Arctic’s icy expanses ar...

Op-ed The Veto isn’t going away, but it needs to be civilised

By Daryl Swanepoel

The United Nations Security Council was designed to stop the world’s worst fires. Too often, it has become the arsonist’s best friend. From Rwanda to Syria to Ukraine, the Council’s five perma...

Op-ed In partial defence of the BBC

By Georgios Kostakos

In recent days, a long-simmering dispute between US President Donald Trump and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has exploded, with Mr. Trump threatening to sue the BBC for 1 to 5 bil...

Art “We Owe Ourselves More” Kenya’s debt, accountability & civic participation by Amondi Awuor

By Edwin Mc Queen

Public debt is often discussed in technical terms, yet its consequences shape everyday life, affecting public services, economic opportunity and trust between citizens and government. When deb...

Art Resilience in troubled times

By Bob Haverluck

Art Trouble(d) Times – but not losing heart

By Bob Haverluck

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