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Green, White, Hoax

Nigeria’s size in people or gross GDP will not be sufficient for her to retain the title of ‘Giant of Africa’. Right now, she is dangling from the thin rope that separates giant from Agbaya. Nigeria, in recent history, ha...

by Oluwafunmilayo Oyatogun

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Bosnian Protesters Demand Bread, Social Justice And Freedom Of Speech

When the citizens of Bosnia’s second biggest city, Tuzla, went out to protest on February 4, 2014, few expected to witness the country-wide riots that followed. Whether the latest unrest in Bosnia-Herzegovina can be qualifi...

by Rayna St

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Corruption, Foreign Investment, Corporate Responsibility and SSA: The Case of Angola

On the 5th of August, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued US oil company, Cobalt International Energy Inc., with a Wells Notice in response to its operations in Angola. The Wells notice was a formal notific...

by Justin McCarthy

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Anyone for alphabet soup? A guide to Asia-Pacific regionalism

ASEAN, APEC, EAS, ARF, SAARC, PIF, ASEAN+3, AEC, ASEM, CAEC, AEM, CAREC, SCO, PBEC, PECC, SPT. Is this a bad version of scrabble? Or a random jumble of unrelated letters? No. In fact, these are just some of the many regional in...

by Trudy McIntosh

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Ensuring Best Practices In Guatemalan Integration: Guatemalan Or Foreign Responsibility?

As a Canadian grad student interested in Central American integration, I moved to Guatemala for a few months to work on my Masters thesis. I had been studying Guatemalan policy, mining laws and economic issues in Guatemala for ...

by Esma Mneina

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Soft Power And The Middle Way – A Proposal For China And Her Minorities

An international statesman was received at the White House on the 21st February to meet and discuss the issues of the day with President Obama. While this alone would not be cause for consternation, the identity of said stat...

by Christopher Cannell

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The Eurozone’s achilles heel

On 25 January 2015 Greece ushered in the New Year with the election of the leftist SYRIZA party to parliament. All eyes are now on Greece and her new Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, in hopes that he will compromise and continue...

by Robert Billings

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Disciplined Growth: a new Franco-German engine for Europe?

From the very beginning of the European integration project, France and Germany have been at the core of the whole enterprise. It was German Chancellor Willy Brandt who joined French President Georges Pompidou at the very first...

by Gilles Pittoors

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Infographic: The Psychology of Poverty

Studies have shown that the levels of worry that go hand in hand when dealing with poverty are causing immense metal strain on those caught up in the poverty cycle. Money worries are creating a vicious cycle in American soc...

by Nicky Armstrong

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Green, White, Hoax

Bosnian Protesters Demand Bread, Social Justice And Freedom Of Speech

Corruption, Foreign Investment, Corporate Responsibility and SSA: The Case of Angola

Anyone for alphabet soup? A guide to Asia-Pacific regionalism

Ensuring Best Practices In Guatemalan Integration: Guatemalan Or Foreign Responsibility?

Soft Power And The Middle Way – A Proposal For China And Her Minorities

The Eurozone’s achilles heel

Disciplined Growth: a new Franco-German engine for Europe?

Infographic: The Psychology of Poverty

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