Outcomes of the Ukraine conflict
OPINION: Russia is equally concerned about an imminent threat to its national security resulting from the integration and arming of the Ukrainian military by Nato, as well as the nationalist degeneration of the political system over the past decade, writes Dr André Thomashausen.
Gorbachev, the last ‘Soviet Czar’
OPINION: Mikhail Gorbachev’s legacy in Russia was the demise and defunding of the military and at the same time the growing influence of the new ‘shadow elite’, writes Professor André Thomashausen.
US Secretary of State came to SA, blinked and left
OPINION: America’s new foreign relations with Africa appear more exclusionary and forceful than ever, writes André Thomashausen.
Constitution and constitutionalism in Russia
The renewed Constitution of Russia has recalibrated Russia?s constitutionalism. Russian voters have an abhorrence of the political instability and party-political trench wars, corruption and decay of public services, as they knew it under Yeltsin.
Changing of guard in Maputo
A new and less emotional generation is taking charge of Maputo, writes André Thomashausen.