New world order emerging as global power dynamics shift

Geopolitical shifts are affecting higher education on the continent – The Mail & Guardian

We are living in an increasingly fraught geopolitical landscape and uncertainties are felt globally, across many societal sectors. With the Trump administration in the US, the war in Gaza, escalating tension in the Middle East, threats of Russia expanding its war efforts across Europe, and conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Syria, uncertainties are mounting. And open conflict is not the only woe in the world; climate ch…

New world order emerging as global power dynamics shift

The geopolitical landscape is evolving, with China rising and Trump’s policies reshaping global alliances. Where does South Africa fit in?

BNC#7: Arron Banks - Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and where South Africa falls into the shifting geopolitical landscape

At BNC#7 in Hermanus, the UK’s largest-ever political funder (of Brexit), Arron Banks, delivered a hard-hitting keynote on political disruption. He criticised South Africa’s political status quo, argued that a reform movement could upend the ANC and DA, and highlighted Trump’s unorthodox but effective leadership style. Banks also explored the geopolitical chess game between the US, China, and Russia, predicting a major shift in Africa’s global i…

Geopolitical shifts are affecting higher education on the continent

We are living in an increasingly fraught geopolitical landscape and uncertainties are felt globally, across many societal sectors. With the Trump administration in the US, the war in Gaza, escalating tension in the Middle East, threats of Russia expanding its war efforts across Europe, and conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Syria, uncertainties are mounting. And open conflict is not the only woe in the world; climate ch…

Great uncertainty is probably the best way to describe the current political situation in South Africa and also the relationship between South Africa and the USA.

In recent years, attempts to change the rules and norms of the world order have become the quintessence of Russian and Chinese foreign policy. With the election of President Trump, the United States also joined them. [see_also ids="635011"] Revisionism — not historical, but total — has finally replaced globalism as the main concept of international relations. There is nothing wrong with trying to revise the world order, and this is not the first…