Middle East Archives - Intervention

Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Gender, Humanity, Israel, Latin America, Middle East, Palestine, violence, White supremacy, WomenNo CommentsViews:

Why should Intervention unleash on readers a 2020 interview of about 6000-word interview with Prof Judith Butler? It is not Intervention’s own making. It is simply because Butler is an icon.... Read more

The Israel-Iran Crisis: A Chance to Step Back from the Brink

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Beijing, Deterrence, Hamas, Hizbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Operation True Promise, WashingtonNo CommentsViews:

By International Crisis Group There is some careful balancing in this statement that makes it a more attractive intervention than that of those who are either parroting Israel’s invincibilit... Read more

Abubakar Sokoto, Ochoche, SK Usman, Others Lead UDU Symposium on Peace in Northwest, Middle East

Posted By: adminon: November 08, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Centre for Peace Studies, Middle East, Northwestern Nigeria, UDUNo CommentsViews:

“Pathways to Enhanced Security and Conflict Resolution – Northwestern Nigeria and the Middle East in Perspective” is the topic which will engage the attention of scholars and practitio... Read more

Establishing Priorities in Nigeria’s Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: October 14, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Atlantic Ocean, ECOWAS, Europe, Middle East, Nigerian missions, RECs, The AmericasNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Understanding the drivers of Nigeria’s foreign policy and the determinants of the national interest is an important activity that should occupy our passing mo... Read more

Strongest 105 Universities in the Social Science Subjects in the 2023 World University Subject Ranking

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Africa, CHINA, Decoloniality, Global knowledge production, Latin America, Middle East, QS Subject ranking, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

It is time to get more insights into how well or not too well particular universities are teaching particular courses as QS World University Ranking releases its 2023 Subject Ranking. It is... Read more

Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, APC, Asia, CHINA, Cuba, Dr. Umaru Dikko, Fourth Republic, Francis Fukuyama, Illiberalism, Iran, Latin America, Margaret Thatcher, Middle East, MKO Abiola, PDPNo CommentsViews:

By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more

Israel Splits African Union?

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: 'Africa Has Come of Age', African Union Commission, CHINA, Middle East, NATONo CommentsViews:

It was not expected that South Africa which fought a national liberation war to sit comfortably along with Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola and Algeria, helplessly watching the AU operationalise it... Read more

BP Group Chief Economist, Spencer Dale, Predicts Faster Energy Transition

Posted By: adminon: October 20, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Arab, BP, GDP, IEA, INDCs, Middle East, North Africa, Paris, Spencer Dale, USNo CommentsViews:

In the interview below, reproduced from BP Energy Economics which reproduced it from Energy Post’s World Energy Focus, (October 12, 2016), BP Chief Economist, Spencer Dale thinks the transit... Read more

Five megachanges that could transform the world

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2016In: FlashbackTags: AfD, Amsterdam, Andrew McAfee, Asia, Boston, Brexit, Cape Town, Carl Frey, D.C, Ellen Stofan, Erik Brynjolfsson, Europe, Hong Kong, Iran, ISIS, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Michael Osborn, Middle East, Muslims, NASA, New York City, North Africa, Poland, RBC, Russia, San Francisco, Shanghai, St. Petersburg, Sweden, Tokyo, Trumpism, U.S, Venice, WashingtonNo CommentsViews:

By Darrel West Large-scale change is transforming the world. Many of the beliefs and institutions that used to anchor international and domestic affairs have grown weak. Political and econom... Read more

China’s Experiment in Djibouti

Posted By: adminon: October 05, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Beijing, CHINA, CMA, Djibouti, Elmi Ahmed, Ethiopia, Europe, Gulf of Aden, IMF, Kuwait, MCA, Middle East, Philippe Danieau, SARL, Saudi Arabia, Somaliland, Turkey, U.A.E., UNICEFNo CommentsViews:

China’s role in Africa is changing from resource extractor to long-term strategic partner. Djibouti is a prime example. By François Dubé for The Diplomat On April 8, 2016 China’s Ministry of... Read more