Google’s dramatic threat to close its business in China unless the authorities allow it to provide uncensored search results throws into stark relief the limits to globalization.
The dream of  google spearheading the initiative to unify the World Wide Web by flattening the Earth into a single cyberspace has been shattered by that governments’ determination to control [...]

Zimbabwe’s attorney general today claimed that the state would move to have its key witness in the terrorism trial of an ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai impeached for giving contradicting evidence.
The trial of Roy Bennett -who astonishingly faces a possible death sentence on charges of illegal possession of arms for purposes of committing terrorism, banditry [...]

While reading an insightful piece published in the Botswana Gazette and republished from the non-profit Arcadia Foundation’s website, on the‘Global Erosion of Freedom’, it dawned on me that many of our readers, aspiring political scientists, and indeed the general populous might not be aware of not just how but why human rights policy has been pushed to [...]

Chinese Foreign Minister Hon. Yang Jiechi recently sat down with both China Radio International and Kenya Broadcasting Corporation at the Chinese embassy in Nairobi. One of the lesser-discussed initiatives China has undertaken to wear the king’s crown in the realm of geopolitical hegemony was and is their continued strides in Africa. Below, the Foreign Minister [...]

The trial of the internationally renowned dissident Liu Xiaobo is set to start tomorrow in Bejing. Although he was promised an open trial, European and U.S. diplomats have been refused access to the hearing. Chinese reform activists and his wife say they have been warned not to attend the trial.
Chinese court officials called Liu’s attorneys last weekend [...]

Khadija Sharife, a journalist and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) based in South Africa, presented the following paper at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation conference ‘The Global Crisis and Africa: Struggles for Alternatives” in Randburg, South Africa on 19 November 2009. In a geopolitical climate where hungry investors are looking to [...]

Writing currently from Canada, the following piece by Peter Worthington in the Toronto Sun caught my eye. It is truly rare that Canadian media takes a gander at the nation of Zimbabwe, and in this brief perspective, I feel Mr. Worthington is hitting a major point which needs to be further examined in order for Zimbabwe [...]

“Be wary of China, for when she wakes, she will shake the world”. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The United States have long exerted themselves moral leaders in the geopolitical community. Their bilateral relations with China however, especially given the new economic playing field in the wake of the international economic recession, has left U.S. President Barack Obama’s [...]

An interesting geopolitical scenario takes place daily, sometimes eerily unbeknownst to many. More attention must be given from the west regarding Chinese investment in African infrastructure and its ramifications in the long-run at home. Paul Kagame has written a concise and thoroughly educational piece on the merits of Chinese versus western involvement with Africa.
As excerpted from [...]

Glance at share prices or short-term growth forecasts and you might feel comforted nowadays. Output has stopped shrinking in all the world’s big economies. In its latest forecasts the IMF reckons global GDP will expand by 3.1% next year, 1.2 percentage points faster than it forecast in April. Global stockmarkets have rallied by 64% since [...]