The African Growth and Opportunity Act delivered mixed results. Its proposed renewal is an opportunity to do better, @audedarnal.bsky.social writes.

How the Renewal of AGOA Can Deliver for African Economies

The African Growth and Opportunity Act delivered mixed results. Its proposed renewal is an opportunity to do better.

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"In 2024, 20 of 48 African countries paid more in debt service than on health and education combined." — Demba Moussa Dembele 🇸🇳 addresses the Progressive International, Third World Network and Polity Kuala Lumpur Conference.

"The only response to unilateralism is collective action."-Varsha Gandikota from @progintl.bsky.social at the Kuala Lumpur Conference on a New Just & Humane Intl Order. Collective action and intl solidarity must be the priority for the Global Majority to achieve the transformation of the intl order.

Read Caribbean expert Valerie Onu's latest piece on how framing climate action as economic opportunities could unlock investment partnerships between major powers, including the US, and Caribbean (and other vulnerable) countries. www.stimson.org/2025/how-sid...

How SIDS’ Can Influence the Global North Through Climate Action • Stimson Center

How small island developing states’ are leveraging climate leadership to forge strategic economic partnerships.

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Last week, I was asked what more efficient international aid could look like.➡️Instead of selling US crops🌽 to already weakened and fragile economies overseas, support the latter in developing their own agricultural sector to support food autonomy, livelihood and resilience.👩‍🌾

Seems like people—especially in the West—are [very] slowly realizing that a world order that is dominated by a single power is not in the interests of anyone. It had to hit their pockets for that reckoning to happen. Sigh.😒

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L'envers de l'exploitation des minerais critiques. L'exemple de la guinée: corruption, non transparence, absence de retombées économiques pour les communautés, pollution, raréfaction de l’eau potable, routes dégradées. www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/... @rfi.fr

Grand reportage - Simandou: miracle ou mirage pour l'économie guinéenne?

L'exploitation des immenses réserves de fer des monts du Simandou pourrait marquer un tournant décisif pour l'économie guinéenne. Estimées à près de 8 milliards de tonnes de minerai, ces réserves font...

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Last month, I convened with @PlataformaCIPO & the Washington Brazil Office a group of experts from Latin America, the Caribbean & Africa to discuss climate action amid disengagement from the US gov. Check out insights from the conversation in our latest publication! www.stimson.org/2025/facing-...

Facing the Future: Global South Climate Priorities in Trump’s Second Term • Stimson Center

Global South actors have an opportunity to step up as U.S. climate cooperation is scaled back under the second Trump administration.

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Sec. of State Marco Rubio just told South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool he is no longer welcome in 🇺🇸 @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interviewed Rasool earlier this year where he called Gaza 'apartheid on steroids' and criticized Trump and Musk for interfering globally zeteo.com/p/south-afri...

Trump has threatened Caribbean nations that welcome Cuba medical missions. I wonder what his strategy towards France is, since Martinique, a French Caribbean island, also hosted a Cuban mission to support our COVID-19 response. apnews.com/article/cuba...

Caribbean leaders oppose US policy targeting Cuban medical missions, saying they're critical

Caribbean leaders are pushing back against a new U.S. policy that aims to crack down on Cuban medical missions, saying that the work of hundreds of Cuban medical staff across the region is essential.

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Btwn a transactional Trump & great power competition, this type of move was predictable & why the whole narrative about the critical minerals "opportunity" for producer countries is bs. Let's stop pretending that critical minerals are the golden ticket for devpt. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congo Courts Trump for Strategic Minerals Tie-Up as War Looms

The Democratic Republic of Congo has offered the US exclusive access to critical minerals and infrastructure projects in exchange for security assistance as it battles a rebellion backed by neighborin...

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I'm thrilled to be part of this initiative and continue to publish with WPR!

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WPR is excited to be partnering with @newamerica.org’s Planetary Politics program, whose fellows will be bringing our readers innovative analysis on important issues facing our world. Meet this year’s fellowship class here:

Trump "clearly doesn't think we should lead the world. Look, America is not perfect, but I stand with the majority of Americans who believe we are still exceptional, unparalleled." - Slotkin's response to Trump. Even in these turbulent times, the Dems are not learning: US exceptionalism ain't it.

Today, CIDOB's research team discussed the role of the Global South in the current global order with @audedarnal.bsky.social, founder and leader of the 'Global South in the World Order' Project at the Stimson Center. Read her contribution to the 2025 #CIDOBYearbook 🔗 bit.ly/CIDOBYearboo...

Could Trump make a deal with Putin re: Ukraine that includes, BRICS and the dedollarization agenda in exchange? Trump would also hit China thus doing, and successfully push the Europeans to step up their defense spending. Sounds like it could be a win on all fronts. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/25/c...

As Trump Abandons Allies, How Will China Respond?

The shock approach causes amusement and concern in Beijing.

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The CARICOM Summit started yday. "Former colonial powers must apologise and pay compensation for their historic role in the enslavement of Africans, Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen." www.reuters.com/world/caribb...

Caribbean leader tells EU chief: Apologise and pay reparations for slavery

Former colonial powers must apologise and pay compensation for their historic role in the enslavement of Africans, Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

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Overlooking the continuation of the US global war on terrorism leaves the field free for the Trump admin to continue to implement policies that violate human rights on both US and foreign soil and bend international and domestic law in the name of natsec. www.stimson.org/2025/testing...

Testing Assumptions About US Foreign Policy in 2025 • Stimson Center

Members of the Reimagining US Grand Strategy team examine key assumptions about US foreign policy that will be tested this year.

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For a country that, less than a year ago, wanted to preserve "the liberal world order," the US is successful at taking it apart. Perhaps Western countries that are trying to navigate this mess will now agree that a more balanced international system is favorable to them too.

Good article by Kishore Mahbubani about "how irrelevant Europe has become, even when its geopolitical interests are at stake." "What shocks many in the world is that Europeans didn’t anticipate the quagmire they’re in." Same perspective from DC. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/18/e...

It’s Time for Europe to Do the Unthinkable

Brussels has slavishly followed Washington for too long—and forgotten how to advance its own geopolitical interests.

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South Africa is presiding over the G20 this year and it is also a leader within the BRICS. Check out our Q&A with Sanusha Naidu on what this means for global governance reform www.stimson.org/2025/a-discu...

A Discussion on South Africa's Strategic Role in the G20 and Global Governance Reform • Stimson Center

Examining South Africa’s leadership in the BRICS and G-20 to drive global governance reform.

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@judah-grunstein.bsky.social you're my hero! Please follow me!🥹 I promise I will post cool stuff about Global South perspectives on international affairs, transforming the world order for equity, climate action, reforming international aid, and much more.

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you're looking for great analysis of the role of the Global South/Global Majority in global politics, follow Aude Darnal: @audedarnal.bsky.social And please RT widely, she just got here, and I told her it's not that hard to make connections! Gift link to one of her articles for us:

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