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

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Europe 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

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Could 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

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Migration 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

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How 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

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Peace 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

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AUKUS 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

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Rising 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

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The 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

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Emerging 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

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Close 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

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Who 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

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Ending 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

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The 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

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South 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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