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Nigeria’s Share of Pele’s Global Stardom

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2022In: FlashbackTags: Andy Akporugo, Audu Bako, Bendel Insurance FC, Bendel State, Daily Times of Nigeria, Edo State, Kaduna, Midwestern State, MOROCCO, Naseerite Ogbemudianism, Pele phenomenon, Pope Benedict, Qatar, Santos FC, UkraineNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Share of Pele's Global Stardom

Sports or, better still, soccer and death, have managed to take a huge chunk of the last month and days of 2022. The year began with replacement of the Covid-19 trauma with the war in Ukrain... Read more

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Russian Federation Conscripting Africans to Fight in Ukraine?

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Government of Zambia, Just War, Lemekhani Nyirenda, Russian Government, UkraineNo CommentsViews:
Russian Federation Conscripting Africans to Fight in Ukraine?

“As Russia came to terms with the challenge associated with the lack of combat infantry personnel in its war with Ukraine, the resort to conscription of prisoners became a viable option. It... Read more

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Conceptualising Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

Posted By: adminon: June 22, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Diplomacy, Monsieur Callieres, Russia, Ukraine, WARNo CommentsViews:
Conceptualising Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

By Ambassador Usman Sarki There is the need to define the parameters of the concepts of foreign policy and diplomacy as they relate to the practical conduct of inter-state relations. While p... Read more

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What Does NATO Standing Up for Ukraine Signify While Casually Ignoring “Violence Against Others”?

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Abdul Haq al-Ani, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Germany, Haiti, Minsk Agreements, NATO, Tarik al-Ani, Ukraine, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown UniversityNo CommentsViews:
What Does NATO Standing Up for Ukraine Signify While Casually Ignoring “Violence Against Others”?

By Kim Petersen The leaders of a bevy of NATO-aligned countries have appeared in a collage that reads “Stand up for Ukraine.” It comes across blatantly as propaganda cooked by a corporate PR... Read more

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China As Peacemaker in Ukraine Conflict?

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Afghanistan, Africa, ASEAN, Brazil, CHINA, EU, India, Iraq, Losers, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, WinnersNo CommentsViews:
China As Peacemaker in Ukraine Conflict?

If what the highly influential and London based Financial Times is reporting is anything to go by, then the world might have found in China the global player which can undergird a peace proc... Read more

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US-Russia Relations Not Quite Yet a Cold War – Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister Part 2

Posted By: adminon: April 10, 2017In: FlashbackTags: Angela Merkel, Barrack Obama, Deconfliction, Francois Hollande, Hezbollah, Iran, ISIL, Jabbat al-Nusra, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Kiev, Minsk Agreement, OSCE, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President Poroshenko, Russia, UkraineNo CommentsViews:
US-Russia Relations Not Quite Yet a Cold War - Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister Part 2

Question: Perhaps we can pivot to international affairs. In the United States there’s been discussion of a new Cold War; you, for your part, recently talked about a post-West international o... Read more

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Donald Trump Should Embrace a Realist Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Afghanistan, Chicago, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, East Asia, Egypt, Europe, Georgia, Germany, India, Iraq, ISIS, John J. Mearsheimer, Libya, Obama, Persian Gulf, Russia, Syria, UK, Ukraine, YemenNo CommentsViews:
Donald Trump Should Embrace a Realist Foreign Policy

Remember John J. Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago’s R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science who wrote, among others, The Tragedy of Great Power Politic... Read more

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Whose Finger on the Nuclear Button?

Posted By: adminon: November 09, 2016In: FlashbackTags: ALCM, Crimea, DONALD TRUMP, GLCM, HILLARY CLINTON, ICBM, INF, LRSO, NATO, Obama, Russian, THAAD, Ukraine, US, USSR, William J. PerryNo CommentsViews:
Whose Finger on the Nuclear Button?

By Michael Klare Although the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election might have been won and lost by the time this is published, this point in this piece still calls for reflection, ir... Read more

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