Focus on the Global South
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Should We Focus on the Problems of the Elite, or Those Faced by the Majority of the African Population?
Professor Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and African energy specialist, on how the Ukraine conflict had re-shaped thinking amongst many Africans, and on the transformation in leadership needed to address the problems faced by the majority of Africa’s people.
The Impact of the War in Ukraine on West Africa Requires a Disaggregated Analysis
An interview with Gilles Yabi, executive director of the West African Think Tank WATHI, on food security in Africa
The Misguided Forces Driving Conflict Escalation Between the US and China
Yale Law School Fellow Stephen Roach, discusses his just-released book, Accidental Conflict. Roach explores how much of the adversarial nationalist rhetoric in both China and the USA is dangerously misguided and more a reflection of each nation’s fears and vulnerabilities than a credible assessment of the risks they face.