By Victor Idrogo / Banco Mundial, Flickr For centuries, Latin America and the Caribbean have been the site of geopolitical power plays. The Covid-19 pandemic has made the region once again the stage for competition over the world’s leadership position – this time between China and the United States. This past
The Arabian Union and why it doesn’t exist
Paweldotio, Unsplash Cultural similarities, historical connections, and the same spoken language. At first glance, the countries of the Arab world seem to enjoy good circumstances for a regional economic integration similar to the European Union. The countries are young and the borders separating them do not stem primarily from interstate
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▶︎ Travel Report: Chile & Singapore Part 2
Part 2 of the Travel Report is a panel discussion about different types of human security challenges that Singapore is facing today and could come to face in the future. Our panelists include Mark Hann from the organization Human Security Collective located in Hague, Kristina Göransson who is the Deputy
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▶︎ Towards A Secure And Sustainable Space Age With Daniel Porras
Boom welcome to the Space Age! The Perspective met up with Daniel Porras to discuss the urgent need for corporations in outer space. Daniel who is the Director of Strategic Partnership and Communications at the Secure World Foundation and Non-Resident at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, elaborates on astonishing
▶︎ Olympic Diplomacy
Where did the worlds largest sporting competition start and what has it become? Can sports and politics really be separated in todays global climate? And what does the futurre of the olympics really look like? These questions and our thoughts and opinions on the matter are presented and discussed in
Africa’s Last Colony
There is still one territory on the African continent which has not yet been decolonised: The Western Sahara. The country was colonised by Spain in the late 1800s and was subsequently annexed by Morocco. Its people, the Sahrawis, have been denied their fundamental right of self-determination for more than a