On Monday 18 April, a crowd of 120 or so gathered in the hall of the Free University in Amsterdam for a lecture by Shi Yinhong, professor of international relations at Renmin University of China. In his lecture, the seventh in a series on ‘global…

Is South Africa’s foreign policy likely to be fundamentally changed now that a new political leadership has taken over the country and the ANC since 2009? Before addressing this, it may be worthwhile explaining the fundamental shift in foreign pol…

Who would have thought of comparing or matching Turkey and Brazil? Well, illustrious Brazilian author Jorge Amado did it when he wrote a great novel about a Turk, in fact an Ottoman Arab migrant, roaming the roads of Brazil in the early years of t…

(This post is the introduction speech of Mariano Aguirre at the Seminar "Emerging Powers in the 21st Century" that took place in Oslo, Norway, 4 April 2025)This seminar is focussed on analyzing aspects of the international system’s new c…

At the seminar ‘Emerging Powers in the 21st century’ in Oslo, specialists from Norway and participants from Turkey, India, China, Indonesia and Brazil discussed how political and economic hegemony in today’s world is changing to a situation of mul…

The Broker was present in Oslo for the ‘Emerging Powers in the 21st century’ seminar. The event was organized by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (NOREF). Political and economic hegemony in today’s wo…