When President Trump imposed “reciprocal tariffs” on April 2nd, framed as a “liberation day” for American workers, he inadvertently launched something far bigger: the Global South’s emancipation from economic vassalage.   The self-inflicted wound   While Trump’s declared intention was..

The pluridecade-long Kurdish-Turkish conflict has been interspersed with defining moments, amongst which the speeches of Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), hold a distinctive place. In 2013, his call for a unilateral cessation of hostilities signaled..

The Geopolitics of Sport in North Africa: “From the diplomacy of briefcases to that of Sneakers”     Since time immemorial, sports and politics have been intricately linked. One need only look at the Olympics in ancient Greece. Indeed, sports..