Metro East - Central

Sankara knew that Africa’s development had to come both from internal transformation and opposition to corrupt forces, as well as resistance from imperialism. http://dlvr.it/SgBn44

Alexander Henry provides a scintillating new perspective on the experiences of the Italian armed forces under Mussolini, albeit one that warrants further exploration. http://dlvr.it/Sg7v8F

Rahul Sagar discusses global political positionalities in 19th century South Asia, and draws comparisons to the contemporary political order. http://dlvr.it/Sg2pMZ

President Zelenskyy visited Washington with the confidence of a wartime leader who knows where his country is headed and what tools are required in order to get there. http://dlvr.it/Sfz1qn

Governments are making strides on Responsibility to Protect, but they must center affected local populations and civil society to reach the goal of 'never again'. http://dlvr.it/SfrlcK

Karlo Basta talks about the importance of recognising multinational states as a discrete subject and the processes of political economy and symbolic politics within them. http://dlvr.it/SfqtC1

Russia seeks to depopulate and destroy the entity that since 1991 has existed as the independent Ukrainian state. Only deeply flawed narratives can describe this situation otherwise. http://dlvr.it/SfnwnR

Dov Levin discusses electoral interventions, particularly in US elections, the role of cyberattacks and how governments can protect their electoral processes. http://dlvr.it/SflNN3

Western support for the WPS agenda in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has fostered processes of ‘hybridisation’ and ‘NGOisation’ that depoliticise local women’s movements. http://dlvr.it/Sfk09S

The impact of the war on Russia-Africa relations will depend on how the eventual end of the war affects the distribution of power in the global system. http://dlvr.it/SfgNjb

Agbiboa presents a paradigm that highlights the overlooked role played by mobilities and provides an important contribution for policymakers and researchers of conflict. http://dlvr.it/SfdHKy

Maria Debre talks about how regionalism can influence authoritarianism and the impact of issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic on regional and international organisations. http://dlvr.it/SfTD7b

To question decolonisation is to perpetuate the Hegelian notion of Africa’s historical immobility, and this can only be shed by the complete overthrow of the settler. http://dlvr.it/SfSl2H

Given the failure of European governments and IGOs to adopt a human rights-based response to migration flows, what hope is there for civil society to drive change? http://dlvr.it/SfRTDT

When an entire school bus full of children goes missing from a rural California town, local law enforcement, the feds, and the media mount an enormous manhunt. The kidnappers locked the children and their bus driver in a storage container, burying them alive in a quarry. With no rescue in sight, the bus driver tries to get the children and himself out. This is the story of the largest kidnapping for ransom in American history. This is just a preview of Against the Odds. You can listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or at Wondery.lnk.to/ATO_TheApologyLine See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Before becoming the 'next breadbasket of the world', African leaders are right to prioritize their food security needs at home. http://dlvr.it/SfN08G

Moldova is steering towards a new energy security strategy, but its effectiveness will depend on the management of short and long-term political concerns. http://dlvr.it/SfFnrq

In Kazakhstan, there is now a well-organized feminist network. There are however limitations to the growth of feminist politics. http://dlvr.it/Sf6NQS

Philip Schrodt discusses developments and challenges in predicting political and social behaviour, and the importance of transparency in the political data science sphere. http://dlvr.it/Sf49F7

Through shaping the West’s views of the USSR and in turn its response via the intelligence he provided, Gordievsky had a strategic impact on the end of the Cold War. http://dlvr.it/Sdzx6d

LGBTQ politics and activism, bolstered by international support, could prove a time-bomb that further threatens state stability. http://dlvr.it/SdwtJC

Lula will bring back the traditions Brazil has cultivated since democratization, but its foreign policy will not be quite so ambitious as in the past. http://dlvr.it/SdssTP

Riccardo Fabiani discusses developments in the domestic and foreign political affairs of Algeria, as well as the Maghreb region more broadly. http://dlvr.it/Sdq2TW

Bernard Loo's edited volume offers a new perspective on strategic studies, but ambiguity persists in how to conceptualise a small state. http://dlvr.it/Sdhvtt