It is not mere expansion, but the character of the expansion which will guide the five Brics countries on whether they admit new members.
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This year’s G20 faces more difficult challenges than ever before.
The relationship between South Africa and the West, especially the US, has a complex history. Not least because the US designated those fighting the apartheid regime, as terrorists.
Namibia’s refusal to condemn Russia undermines the credibility of its claims to support sovereignty, territorial integrity, and self-determination of all nations.
Bolder action is needed if the African Union and the European Union are to find common ground on migration.
America might be coming back under the new US president, Joe Biden, but this is not the same world or the same country it once was.
The “idea” of America and its promise is at stake.
While restrictions on civil and political liberties may be necessary to protect lives, human rights law requires that they go no further than what’s strictly necessary to achieve this goal.
Many political issues in the 2020 US election are domestic. But black resistance to white supremacy has long had global repercussions.
In 2016 Trump promised to ‘shake the rust off America’s foreign policy.’ Four years later, it’s clearer what that looks like: a US that sits on the sidelines of world crises and collaborations alike.
More than 20 years after the shift from unilateralism to multilateralism, it is reasonable to wonder how multilateral France’s ‘new interventionism’ really is.
Global cooperation is essential if climate action is to be effective, amid the right-wing onslaught against multilateralism.
The system of multilateral international co-operation looks increasingly fragile.
Trump’s embrace of bilateralism in trade relations has pernicious long-term consequences, including ratcheting up the odds of violent conflict.
Cyclone Idai showed just how unprepared SADC is to respond to major natural disasters.
Trade wars are generally bad. But far worse for Australia is that the US and China make peace through a deal to establish a bilateral world order.
The power dynamics in the World Bank have changed dramatically.
Donald Trump’s pick to head the World Bank could well weaken the organisation’s importance in international development and finance.
The number of countries withdrawing seems to be growing by the day.
The United States is blocking new judges to the body that interprets and enforces global trade rules. Australia should start preparing for the end of the World Trade Organisation system.
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Lecturer of international trade law, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Research Fellow at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
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Professor (International Relations), University of Johannesburg
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of International Relations, European University Institute
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Visiting Professor of Tax Law, New York University, and Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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