Month: April 2025
Military Conflicts and Civil Wars Trigger Rise in Arms Spending Worldwide
By Thalif Deen STOCKHOLM | 30 April 2025 (WorldView) — As the long-drawn-out conflicts in Ukraine, beginning February 2014 and Gaza, since October 2023, continue with no signs of a
Read MoreEurope Is a Superpower
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 30 April 2025 (WorldView) — The European Union is not going to face a break-up; however, the Ukraine/Russian conflict goes. Big crises come, but
Read MoreCould the next Pope be African?
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP and author of the new book Writing for Media and Monetising It. ABUJA, Nigeria | 29 April 2025 (WorldView) — It’s nothing to
Read MoreMigration Trends: The Myth of Humane Integration Policies
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS | 28 April 2025 (WorldView) —The debate on migration has calmed down a bit in the news media. However, this does not mean that the issue
Read MoreHow to Avoid Trade Wars – and World War Three
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 28 April 2025 (WorldView) — Not a day goes by without a new shock to Americans and our neighbors
Read MorePeace Corps Is the Third Rail of US Global Development Assistance
By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir* MARRAKECH, Morocco | 27 April 2025 (WorldView) ― Whereas there has been broad consensus that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is in need
Read MoreAUKUS and the Strategic Reconfiguration of the South China Sea: The Emerging Role of HMAS Stirling
By Leonam dos Santos Guimarães* RIO DE JANEIRO | 26 April 2025 (WorldView) — The establishment of the AUKUS trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United
Read MoreRising Global Debt Requires Countries to Put Their Fiscal House in Order
By Era Dabla-Norris, Vitor Gaspar, Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro WASHINGTON, D.C. | 26 April 2025 (WorldView) — Major policy shifts underway have heightened global uncertainty. The series of recent tariff announcements by
Read MoreThe End of Democracy?
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS | 25 April 2025 (WorldView) — The Trump administration is rapidly destroying American democracy. In previous contributions, based on the writings of Harvard professors Steven Levitsky
Read MoreEmerging Risks to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Test Ban Regime
By Leonam dos Santos Guimarães* RIO DE JANEIRO | 24 April 2025 (WorldView) — Since 2020, the international nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear test ban regime has encountered unprecedented and systemic
Read MoreClose the US Military Bases in Asia
The best strategy for the superpowers is to stay out of each other’s lanes. By Jeffrey D. Sachs* This article was published in Other News and is being republished with
Read MoreWho is Left? Who is Right?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 22 April 2025 (WorldView) — It goes back to the French Revolution of 1789. At the Revolutionary Convention, the most radical of the insurgents
Read MoreEnding FGM Means Funding Grassroots African Activists
By Nimco Ali OBE and Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC NAIROBI, Kenya | 15 April 2025 (WorldView) — As two women who have spent our lives working for the human
Read MoreThe West Has No Strategic Interest in Israel
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 15 April 2025 (WorldView) — Recently, I watched the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, walk into the courtroom where he is to be tried
Read MoreSouth Africa: A Child’s Rape Underscores Need to Vehemently Combat Sexual Violence
By Jean-Paul Murunga and Sylvia Obaga* NAIROBI, Kenya | 12 April 2025 (WorldView) — Nationwide outrage and public protests have erupted in South Africa after a mother began speaking out
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