Cyber Attack Downs Mozambique’s @Verdade News Site On Election Day
@Verdade, a Mozambican weekly newspaper and Global Voices partner, was the victim of a massive cyber attack on Oct. 15, 2014, when Mozambican general elections took place last week. The attack began on the eve of the electi...
Benign Or Bellicose? China And The South China Sea: The Ambiguities Of The Peaceful Rise Paradigm
“China loves peace” (Li, 2014). This solemn claim by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has probably sparked scepticism, if not misbelief, in Washington, Tokyo or Canberra. The recent Chinese charm offensive reiterating the Mid...
From Here to Timbuktu: The Case for Intervention
Since April this year, rebels – made up of Tuareg separatists and radical Islamists with links to Al-Qaeda – have gained hold of northern Mali. Boosted by the surplus of weapons plundered from Gaddafi’s stashes and the sk...
Oil Production And The Prisoner’s Dilemma
In 2014 the geopolitics of oil production changed dramatically. Due to the recent U.S. shale boom, Saudi Arabia – the world’s largest oil exporter – lost its position as a ‘swing producer’ in the oil industry which ha...
Film and Climate Change – the formula for a revolution?
Communicating climate change has long been a source of depression for many activists; from human stories that are reduced to numbers and statistics, to polar bears becoming the face of every campaign, the absence of those most ...
Sunshine Strategy Looking Overcast
The tone of the campaign against Scottish independence hit a new low this month. With the polls narrowing recently and voters becoming turned off by the “Better Together” group’s negative campaigning, several senior figur...
