2025 BRICS Summit in Brazil
This article examines the outcomes of the 2025 BRICS Summit in Brazil and assesses what they reveal about the bloc’s role in shaping global governance. It analyses the expansion of BRICS into a broader coalition of emerging economies, the internal challenges reflected in the absence of key leaders, and the implications for multipolarity and the...
Shocks, Identities and Votes: The Canadian Election 2025
In the lead-up to Canada’s 2025 federal election, conventional wisdom and early polling pointed to a decisive victory of the “Conservative Party of Canada” (hereinafter: the Conservatives). The opposition Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, enjoyed a commanding lead in late 2024 amid public fatigue with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s and his party’s nearly decade-long rule....
The New Cold War: Techno-Feudalism, Corporate Empires and the Future of Global Governance
What if the most powerful political actors in the world are no longer governments, but Chief Executive Officers (hereinafter: CEO)? In the 21st century, sovereignty is influenced considerably, not through treaties or constitutions, but through data ownership, algorithmic control and platform monopolies. In a world once characterised by the ideological clash between capitalism and communism,...
