Prof. Alpaslan Ozerdem | 01 June 2010 As is the case for 16 other African countries, this year is the 50th anniversary of independence for Cameroon. The year of 1960 was a...
By Chris, M. A. Kwaja | 03 October 2010 The death of the Late President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar'adua on Wednesday,...
By Thembisa Fakude |15 April 2010 In May 2002, the Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa) decided to rotate the hosting of the World Cup tournament to a different continent every...
By Phillip Eyam-Ozung | 24 March 2010 The real implication of modern globalization reducing the world into a global village is that every inch of the global space has...
01 March 2010 When Nelson Mandela walked to freedom 20 years ago, he re-entered a society seemingly irreversibly split by the evil of apartheid. An explosion of violence,...
F. W. de Klerk 02 February 2010 One of the questions I am invariably asked in international interviews is whether a Damascene conversion led me to initiate the changes...
John Norris Imagine if we had enjoyed the luxury of knowing, two years before it happened, that Yugoslavia would disintegrate in 1991. Or just think if U.S. diplomats had been...
Jeffrey Gettleman when you land at Mogadishu’s international airport, the first form you fill out asks for name, address, and caliber of weapon. Believe it or not, this disaster...
Africa is the center of attention today. Not only traditional powers like France, UK, Russia and US are so keen to revive and re-structure their relations with the African countries;...
Representation is an essential part of a democratic regime and if representation is to be considered an intrinsic element of democracy, no system can claim to be democratic if it...
Last July 1 there took place presidential and parliamentarian elections in Mexico. Enrique Peña Nieto was elected, the candidate of the formerly hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that after eighty...
When something as rock-solid asa national stereotype changes, something profound is surely going on. The traditional (and stupid) Mexican stereotype had been that of the guy wearing a funny and...
The road from Managua to Bonanza, a mining town in the autonomous north-eastern part of Nicaragua, is long and for the most part unpaved. BY NATHANIEL MORRIS | NOVEMBER 10,...
BY PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR | JULY 27, 2012 As the world prepares to face another US presidential election, thoughts turn to the likely foreign and national security policies of America’s...