Lifting the many sanctions burdening Zimbabwe is clearly essential for the nation’s growth. Importers would be able to re-develop their once bountiful export market, private enterprise would be promoted to flourish, the agricultural and mining sectors can regroup and work diligently without threat of corruption and communities can be given the resources to fight the [...]

One of the principle driving factors behind our ideas in corporate foreign policy is the bifurcation of global financial and political influence.  With the rise of strong emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil, and the steep losses in soft power suffered by the United States along with Wall Street’s struggles, it is only [...]

When your President tells you that ‘Playstation is poison‘, you know you’ve got a problem with the way things are being run. When hunger and power deficits are perpetual issues in your country yet those in the executive branch are more focussed on controlling industry for their own agenda, you know you have qualms with [...]

Journalist Stanley Kwenda has fled to South Africa after alleging that he received a death threat by telephone  from a senior police officer, linked to a story he wrote in The Zimbabwean. The newspaper says that “‘impeccable sources” have supplied them with the name of a senior member of the police’s law and order section, a member [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]