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Botswana’s Elections: ‘Free’ and ‘Fair’?
Once again the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) emerges victorious at the 11th General elections of the world’s largest diamond producing country, Botswana. With an outstanding track record of peaceful, free, …
Will democracies continue to bid for global sporting tournaments?
The 2022 Winter Olympics represent something of a watershed moment for the IOC. The withdrawal of Oslo as a candidate city this month has left the organisation with just two …
A Global Debate
It is by no means a secret that we at The Globalist do love a global debate. As a society we aim to provide a platform for discussion of the …
The Case For Engagement: A Response to “Should We Be Bombing ISIS?”
Taking the country to war is the most serious decision that any government will ever make. A decision for war involves placing British service personnel into life-threatening situations, as well …
Why Russo-Chinese competition is undermining the political stability of Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan is a country at a crossroads. The Kyrgyz public has thrown out its governments by mass protest twice in the last ten years, and may well to do so …
Should we be bombing ISIS?
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Inevitably, when deciding which plan of action would be best to employ against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), it will be difficult to isolate recent …
UKIP. A neglected threat?
Politically uniformed voters have just as much power at the ballot box as those supposedly ‘in the know’. To ignore this basic fact is to underestimate the ‘rule of the …
Could Botswana be held back by Neoliberal policies?
With the forthcoming general elections and electrifying conspiracy theories budding from constituency to constituency regarding the death of the Secretary General of the UDC party, Mr. Gomolemo Motswaledi, and His …
Virtual Militaries: The rise of Cyber-Conflict as a key security priority
Perhaps the most important consequences of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, which transformed the British military, has been not where cuts have been made, but where they have …
The overlooked extremists?
Over the summer, we have witnessed the rise of Islamic State capture both our international headlines and our online social media streams.In their attempt to establish an Islamic caliphate, the …