What moments of uncertainty mean for war – and peace – between global rivals
By Douglas B. Atkinson
The coronavirus pandemic has inflamed existing tensions between China and the US. China blamed the US for spreading the virus across international...
The Rise of the Chinese Economy and Growing Concerns in the United States
By Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
The article discusses recent global economic changes and will largely focus on two of the worlds’ largest economies, namely China and...
Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme...
By Susanne Jaspars
By awarding the 2020 Nobel peace prize to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Nobel committee said that it wanted to “turn the...
How the shadow of slavery still hangs over global finance
By Philip Roscoe
When the infamous Zong trial began in 1783, it laid bare the toxic relationship between finance and slavery. It was an unusual and distressing...
Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence
By Paula Larsson
Self-isolation. Quaratine. Lockdown. The outbreak of COVID-19 and its subsequent dissemination across the globe has left a shock wave of disbelief and confusion...