Tweet By: Thembani Mbadlanyana* The demise of a bi-polar world inaugurated an astounding change in global geo-politics. Much of the post-Cold War period has been characterised by a dismissal phase of declining prosperity, increased insecurity and incomprehensible complexities and as such, considerable attention has been given to issues of global governance and security. This…
Tweet by Ottilia Anna Maunganidze 1 July 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the formation of the International Criminal Court (ICC). When it came into force in 2002, the ICC was heralded as a new dawn for international criminal justice and as a means through which victims of international crimes would not only see justice…
Tweet There is never a dull moment in Africa. We are emerging from the historic year that was 2011 with the North African revolutions, the Ivorian post-electoral violence, and of course the secession of Africa’s biggest country, Sudan. Yet on 29 January the continent was already in heightened mode at the African Union’s (AU) 18th…
Tweet By Nadia Ahmadou and Oumar Ba The calibre of recipients for the Nobel Peace Prize has puzzled the wider public in recent years. Writing in 2009, Nadia addressed the controversy generated over the award of this prestigious prize to President Barack Obama for example[1]. It is important to revisit the purpose behind the award…
Tweet For this 9 August Women’s Day celebration in South Africa, I look at the role of women in international politics. I invoke the images of Pocahontas and Thandi Modise. In doing so I re-visit the invocation of Pocohantas by Cynthia Enloe in “Bananas, beaches and bases: making feminist sense of International Politics” (1990), where…
Tweet In line with arguments posited by other scholars such as Horace Campbell (2011) in his article for Pambazuka News entitled “Opposing Gaddafi’s massacres and foreign intervention in Libya” this think-piece argues that Gaddafi is by no means the anti-imperialist he claims to be. Gaddafi’s support of various the despots such as Charles Taylor, Idi…
Tweet by Siphokazi Magadla, Dimpho Motsamai and Melanie Roberts The term First Lady and the institution of First ladyship is a precarious role due to its “extra-constitutional” nature. Given that the role of the spouse of the president is not mentioned in the Constitution; and the position is neither elected nor appointed, it is technically…
Tweet By Oumar Ba, a graduate student at Ohio University pursuing a Masters Degree in Political Science Umar Faruk Abdul Mutallab, who allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit bound airplane on Christmas day, is a Nigerian national. However, the reports seem to indicate that his self-radicalization and his potential ties to Al Qaeda occurred…
Tweet by Kombe Kapatamoyo a former graduate student at Ohio University. Kombe is currently a PhD student at West Virginia University. The World Cup next year will be South Africa’s largest sports event. It will not only bring many nations together in one part of the world, but the world’s attention will be focused on…
Tweet By Mustapha Kurfi Nigeria and South Africa are two of the largest nations on the African continent, with different historical antecedents yet sharing multiple attributes of post-colonial state. While Nigeria has a population of about 150 million people, South Africa has about 50 million; Nigeria underwent the Civil war while South Africa witnessed the…
