Global Policy & Analysis Think Tank
Brazilian band Malvina have just released their new album Hybrid War. Frequent readers of these pages will already be familiar with the themes explored on the band’s new album. Adam Garrie recently interviewed brothers Vini (bass/vocals) and Berman Berbert (guitar/vocals) about the band’s history, future goals and the new album. Below […]
Terrorist groups in West Africa are dangerously trying to transplant the “Syraq” model of transnational destabilization to the Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger border triangle in order to turn it into a similarly lawless region like the frontier between those two aforementioned Mideast states used to be during the height of Daesh’s so-called […]
It is high time to to collectively ask whether the traditional model of schooling is fit for purpose in the 21st century. The idea that children can only learn when gathered at the same place at the same time to hear one local person instruct them ought to be challenged […]
Ramadan Mubarak! Dear Friends, Ramadan is a month of deep devotion, charity, compassion and self-reflection, all of which help people to enlighten themselves whilst providing for those around them. It is a time when fasting reminds people the world over of the sacrifices and suffering of those whose daily life […]
The arrival of new and groundbreaking technologies typically elicits feelings of joyous anticipation among the general public but with positive reactions to technological breakthroughs also comes a deeply hostile reaction from a minority of technophobic neo-luddites who are paranoid about furthering the human condition. For some, reacting negatively to objectively […]
The recent terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka reminded the world of the evil that radicalized groups represent and generated a global conversation about the best way to preemptively thwart this threat. It’s since been reported that some of the attackers even spent time in neighboring India and as far away […]
In the animal kingdom, beasts of all sizes and biological proclivities will respond to events on the basis of reflex. Hierarchies within certain species prone to communal living will develop according to factors including an animal’s size, age and ability to provide other members of the pack or herd with […]
The 25th of April will see heads of state, government, top diplomats and business representatives from all continents gather in Beijing for the 2nd Belt and Road Forum. Although organised by, and held in China, the Forum is the world’s most substantial gathering concerned with issues of trade, international development, […]
In previous times, when Saudi Arabia sought to intervene in the affairs of foreign nations, it did so overtly. Whether funding foreign masjids to advance Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam or sponsoring militant groups with unambiguous links to Riyadh, it used to be that when Saudi Arabia wanted […]
Last week saw the end of Omar al-Bashir’s thirty year period of rule in Sudan. It has subsequently been announced by the authorities that an interim government will oversee a transitional period which will prepare the country for new elections. Though Sudan’s internal political developments are ultimately a matter only […]
