ViewsWeek Views from around the world
There is little hope for peace in much of West Asia five years after the advent of Arab Spring. Every country is going through its own doomsday, reflected everyday with the uncountable number of innocent deaths.
January, 2016
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24 January
Ethiopia’s Invisible Crisis
Protests broke out in Ethiopia in November, and the government is continuing its massive crackdown.
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18 January
Global Inequality Reaches New Extremes: Report
The richest 1% now own more wealth than the rest of the world combined while the wealth owned by the bottom half of humanity has fallen by a trillion dollars in the past five years.
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13 January
Africa’s Success Story
Diamond-rich Botswana avoided the dreaded resource curse and established a prosperous, stable democracy. But political turmoil has begun to roil the traditionally placid society.
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11 January
Tajikistan Early Warning: Internal Pressures, External Threats
Tajikistan's economy is crippled, with the downturn in Russia adding to the difficulties. The rough economic climate, however, is fundamentally of the government’s making: years of endemic corruption have bled local businesses dry and limit the impact of donor aid.
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6 January
View from Turkey: A Sunni-Shia War?
Even if a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia is prevented, proxy wars between these two countries will most probably increase in number in the coming years. One analyst advises Turkey to stay away from these tensions.
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3 January
Djibouti: Will China’s Naval Base Cause Friction with the US?
Controversy over the Chinese presence in Africa is rising in many countries, and Djibouti represents an island of stability from which Beijing might be able to run future evacuation operations in a region undergoing many upheavals. It is also conveniently located to provide logistical support for Chinese vessels involved in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden.
December, 2015
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28 December
2015, The Year That Was: Politics and Society
As we approach 2016, The Conversation looks at the biggest stories on politics and society over the past 12 months.
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28 December
2015: Africa for Pessimists
Despite all the progress – and there is a lot of that – there are still plenty of bad African news stories. Simon Allison looks at what has gone wrong in 2015.
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13 December
China’s Rocky Silk Road
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor has the potential to fundamentally alter the China–Pakistan relationship. Until now China has had the luxury of taking the position that Pakistan’s domestic woes were none of its business. But with the security of thousands of nationals and billions of dollars of investments at stake, China may find itself increasingly drawn into Pakistan’s politics and security concerns.
