“Women Leaders in Global Health 2019: Powerful Lessons from Kigali” By Dr. Nicole de Paula, courtesy of IASS Potsdam Rwandans are a testimony to human resilience. Following the country’s darkest times, when around 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists during the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has emerged as the “Switzerland of Africa”. […]
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Are we already losing the wars of tomorrow?
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor A depressing thought, given the nagging worry that we may well be losing the wars of today, from the Middle East and the never-ending War on Terror to the turmoil in Venezuela. From Hobbes to Weber, we’ve been taught that the State retains the […]
Sorry Finland: Don’t Be Happy, Worry
By Daniel McGroarty GeoPolicy Editor What’s the happiest country on Earth? The data is in: Finland. So says the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network in its new report. Yes, it’s really a thing. But Finland’s happy news comes as others speculate about an inarguably unhappy scenario – that Russia may be […]
FLASHPOINT: South China Sea from Jaw-Jaw to War-War?
By Daniel McGroarty GeoPolicy, Defense Editor Don’t make those travel plans just yet: The much-awaited Trump-Xi trade “summit” seems to be sailing deeper into calendar 2019, with word over the past 24 hours (Reuters) that the meet “won’t happen in March,” may “push into April” (Breitbart), or “may be pushed back to June” (South […]