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The development and modernization of the countries in Africa has always been a priority for BRICS countries and their African counterparts. Given the significant degree of economic dependency and high levels of poverty at independence, the development of countries in Africa has been largely been intertwined with the relationship with the former colonial powers. The rise of leading emerging economies like China and India have had made a strong impression on Africans, both for their direct influence on African economies but also for the ideas and models of development.

Populist Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte, almost at the twilight of his regime as he exits his presidency on June 2022, espoused a blurry ‘independent foreign policy’ as the chief architect of the Southeast Asian state.

For the past decade the world faced a series of crises more or less dramatic, which had in common their unpredictability, shocking occurrence, and lack of ability or interest in being foreseen and anticipated as far as prevention was concerned.

Politically speaking, the rhetoric of populism triumphs, in a world where the threat is global, is indicative of the rise of political populist movements. Such narrative existed and will continue to exist independent from the nature and size of threat.

The Australian Government has a long history of capacity building initiatives across the Indo-Pacific region with the objective to sustain the sovereignty, stability, security and prosperity of the region. The initiatives are delivered through aid programs, defence cooperation programs, medical and health projects, academic and professional exchange programs etc.

US-Turkey relations have a history of challenges in general but with the ascent of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2002 the challenges reached their peak with the failed coup of 15 July 2016 that Erdoğan squarely blamed on the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.

The present synthesis highlights a number of new features of the international relations system and reveals restrictive measures taken by both developed and developing/emerging countries in the field of foreign direct investment , before the COVID-19 pandemic and also under its influence.

If anyone needed remembering that the US is still the world’s leading superpower, Election Night proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Not because it constituted a grand, majestic projection of power and international aplomb.

76 years ago, on 25 October 1944, the Romanian Army liberated the town of Carei in the North-West of the country. This was the final step in the complete liberation of North-West Transylvania from the foreign occupation imposed on Romania through the outrageous Vienna Diktat in 1940, arbitrated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.