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Is Europe about to decide Ukraine’s fate over the heads of the Ukrainians?
Social networks and the global media are buzzing: what’s the plan? Are the Europeans about to decide Ukraine’s fate over the heads of the Ukrainians? And most importantly, why now? Yesterday and today...
View ArticleUkraine’s revolution continues – Thought’s from Kiev
The problem with revolutionary times (and in case anyone was in doubt – Ukraine’s revolution continues) is that so many things happen simultaneously that it sometimes can be extremely difficult to keep...
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Towards a proactive Russia policy: What constitutes checkmate?
Geopolitics is not chess, but the analogy works. Vladimir Putin has been playing this game with his closest neighbours (Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan) for many years, but recently it seems, the...
View ArticleThe real winner of the Ukraine crisis could be China
The crisis in Ukraine has plunged US-Russian relations to their lowest point since the Cold War. Crimea is now Russian territory. Although prisoners of war have been exchanged and both sides have...
View ArticleCrimea: The Road to the Homeland. “The Putimentary”
March 16 was a turning point. On this day, Putin came out of hiding – both literally and figuratively. In the literal sense, Putin’s 11 day absence from public view ended during a press conference with...
View ArticleThe Roma/Gypsies: “Outcasts” of Europe
In January 2013, Zsolt Bayer, a founding member of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, said that: “Most Gypsies are not suitable for cohabitation. They are not suitable for being among people. Most are...
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No More Rise of China?
By Alexey Ilin & Eugenia Shuvaeva “The 19th century was a century of China’s humiliation, the 20th was a century of China’s revival, and the 21st will be the century of China’s domination.” This...
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Vested interests, False arguments and the UN’s new roadmap for development.
The last twenty-five years have been a time of growing adversarialism between the emerging concept of sustainability and the economic imperative for continual growth to maintain our consumer society....
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Keep foreign hands off Afghanistan
By Gabriela Marin Thornton and Arwin Rahi For much of its history, Afghanistan has been a battlefield for conflicts over regional influence in what has been called the Great Game. Now a weak state with...
View ArticleThe Only Alternative: Greece Exit The Eurozone
On July 5th, the Greek people will vote in a referendum that is both incredibly important and technically meaningless. The troika (IMF, European Central Bank, European Commission), with the Germans at...
View ArticleCentral Asia: The Biggest Loser
According to the World Bank, Kazakhstan’s GDP is expected to fall sharply from 4.1% in 2014 to 1.8% in 2015. Given Russia’s economic downturn Kirghizstan and Tajikistan will also be affected. The...
View ArticleFocusing On Deaths At Sea Diverts Attention From the Real Issue
I recently attended a speech by the Australian Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, in Kuala Lumpur and during the subsequent question time, the issue of asylum seekers came up. Her response was to roll out...
View ArticleThe Chinese-Australia Free Trade Agreement – An Open Letter To Bill Shorten
I applaud your (Bill Shorten’s) aspirations to protect the job opportunities of Australian workers in criticism of the Chinese-Australia Free Trade Agreement. However, I see no analogy between your...
View ArticleThe Collapse Of The Schengen Area?
In recent months, the media across the globe has been consumed with coverage of the refugee crisis in Europe. At the same time in the United States the coverage has had competition in the form of...
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Norway: The Silent Crisis
Jerome Vitenberg warned, in an article dated December 25, 2013, about the consequences of excessive oil dependence. He questioned the economic sustainability and the underlying assumptions, supporting...
View Article“Time Witness” To The Migration Crisis
With my recent experiences from Lesvos fresh in mind, I headed for the borders of Croatia and Serbia to continue my work aiding refugees in the continuing migration crisis. This time, I travelled alone...
View ArticleThoughts from Kyiv – In the wake of Paris bombings, shelling in the Donbas...
This week the world mourns the victims of the IS (“Islamic State”) attacks on Paris. Meanwhile, seemingly as proof of the degree to which Ukraine is peripheral to global public opinion, the resurgent...
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The Coming Autumn Heat
The last few days have been emotional. On Wednesday Nadia Savchenko arrived in Kyiv to a hero’s welcome, and a plethora of speculation as to her impact on Ukraine’s political scene. Her speech at...
View ArticlePrivate Capital For Public Problems
Across the globe, many societies are arguably experiencing a higher standard of living than at any time in human civilisation. Thanks, in part to greater accessibility to clean water, reduction in...
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A Different Dhaka: “There are no terrorists in Bangladesh”
“There are no terrorists in Bangladesh” This was the line spun by Bangladeshi PM Shaikh Hasina until last night when finally we saw the planned, heavily armed assault that we’d all feared was on the...
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