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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 Why Middle Powers matter in a fragmenting world

By Global South Perspectives Network

The international system appears to be entering a period of profound uncertainty. Geopolitical rivalry is intensifying, confidence in global institutions is weakening and rules that once appea...
Dialogue What is the future of the G20 in a fragmenting world?

By Global South Perspectives Network

The international system today does not appear to be collapsing in any dramatic or spectacular sense. Institutions still exist. Forums continue to convene. Rules remain written down. Yet there...

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 Why Middle Powers matter in a fragmenting world

By Global South Perspectives Network

The international system appears to be entering a period of profound uncertainty. Geopolitical rivalry is intensifying, confidence in global institutions is weakening and rules that once appea...

Dialogue What is the future of the G20 in a fragmenting world?

By Global South Perspectives Network

The international system today does not appear to be collapsing in any dramatic or spectacular sense. Institutions still exist. Forums continue to convene. Rules remain written down. Yet there...

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 ...
Citizen Correspondent A European in Brexit Britain

By Birgit Bennett

If I had a Euro for every time I’ve heard phrases like “we don’t mean people like you” or “you’ll be fine” or “nothing will change” in relation to Brexit, I would be a very wealthy lady by now...

The invisible ones: people with disabilities in Latin America

By Renata Juliotti

“I feel the pandemic has highlighted the invisibility of people with disabilities,” said the mother of Luigi Gabriel, a 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Throughout history, it has been prov...
COVID-19, risk communication and the crucial role of community leaders

By Cilene Victor

As I am writing this article, someone is being infected by the novel coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) around the world and the statistics of the pandemic are updated and disseminated by some online pl...

My Greek grandmother broke her leg, but the health system needed more help

By Niko Costantino

The story of my grandma shows what can happen to EU citizens if their country cannot pay for its health system.
Corruption is the elephant in the room

By Dominikos Chrysidis

Corruption weakens economies, deepens inequality and undermines democracy. And the citizens are always left to foot the bill. It's time to say enough is enough.

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 ...

Citizen Correspondent A European in Brexit Britain

By Birgit Bennett

If I had a Euro for every time I’ve heard phrases like “we don’t mean people like you” or “you’ll be fine” or “nothing will change” in relation to Brexit, I would be a very wealthy lady by now...

The invisible ones: people with disabilities in Latin America

By Renata Juliotti

“I feel the pandemic has highlighted the invisibility of people with disabilities,” said the mother of Luigi Gabriel, a 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Throughout history, it has been prov...

COVID-19, risk communication and the crucial role of community leaders

By Cilene Victor

As I am writing this article, someone is being infected by the novel coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) around the world and the statistics of the pandemic are updated and disseminated by some online pl...

My Greek grandmother broke her leg, but the health system needed more help

By Niko Costantino

The story of my grandma shows what can happen to EU citizens if their country cannot pay for its health system.

Corruption is the elephant in the room

By Dominikos Chrysidis

Corruption weakens economies, deepens inequality and undermines democracy. And the citizens are always left to foot the bill. It's time to say enough is enough.

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...

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...

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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