Joseph Stiglitz, Noble Prize-winning economist, and Hamid Rashid, Chief of Global Economic Monitoring at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, recently wrote a report detailing the ‘looming’ debt crisis facing 110 of the world’s poorest countries as a result of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 induced […]
A recent report by the Public Accountability Initiative has divulged information related to two critical issues in contemporary America: the broken policing system and the ever-increasing ability of corporations to buy influence within public bodies. The report reveals that some of the largest American corporations are leveraging their wealth to […]
In response to the end of the Cold War and the fall of the USSR, Francis Fukuyama stated famously that it was ‘The End Of History’. This pivotal moment, he believed, would be the beginning of a New World Order, one where the barriers -both physical and diplomatic – would […]
Just over a decade after the 2008 financial crisis, the UK faces a new economic crisis – this time emanating not from de-regulated financial institutions, but the severe economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We stand on the precipice with an already fragile economy facing an economic contraction on a […]
President Donald Trump’s use of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to distract from his administration’s tragic handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has come to a head as the United States formally begins the one-year process of withdrawing from the multilateral organisation. Congress was notified by the administration on July 7th […]
At the next European Council meeting, an anomaly will be present: a country that can no longer be referred to as a democracy. The outbreak of COVID-19 allowed Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s Prime Minister, to further consolidate his position of power as a leader of a single-party country, resembling Putin more […]
The Croatian-Bosnian border has long been subject to criticism surrounding the often-chilling stories of severe human rights infringements inflicted upon refugees who have attempted the crossing. Recent findings from The Danish Refugee Council and The Guardian allude not only to a truly horrific infringement of human rights but also to […]
President Duterte of the Philippines was elected in June 2016 with the promise that he would do everything in his power to crack down on drug-related crime in the country. Now, four years on, the UN has released a detailed report documenting the extrajudicial killings of thousands of people at […]
