US President Donald Trump has reaffirmed Washington’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, describing Morocco’s autonomy proposal as the only realistic path toward resolving the decades-long dispute.

The development comes as Spain continues to grapple with a massive migrant influx into its North African enclave of Ceuta, prompting emergency discussions across the European Union. The Western Sahara dispute remains one of North Africa’s most sensitive geopolitical issues, involving Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria, and international stakeholders.

Trump Reaffirms US Support for Morocco’s Western Sahara Claim | Spain Faces Migrant Crisis

The world order is in great flux and fluidity. Major geopolitical shifts, redistribution of power and shifts, along with a more unilateralist the United States are all conspiring together to create patterns of the disorder.

In multilateralism, lies the hope of world order, peace and security

The concept and reification of culture is like any complex concepts a contested one. But, at the risk of oversimplification, culture may be defined as the institutionalization of quotidian practices of a given people.

Political fate of the world hangs in balance

The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman famously wrote a book, ‘The Lexus and the Olive Tree’ in the concluding years of the 20th century. In Friedman’s formulation, Lexus stood as a metaphor for modernity(globalisation) and the olive tree one for tradition.

Blog: The tension between modernity and tradition is real

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the entity known as the West, essentially in the nature of a loose grouping of political, social and philosophical ideas reified coincidentally by a certain people inhabiting a certain part of the world, has reigned supreme.

Is individualism the secret of the West’s success?

By Shelley Inglis Remember former President Barack Obama’s infamous red line speech in 2012? In that speech, the president made it clear that the US would not stand for the use of chemical or biological weapons by President Bashar al-Assad against opposition forces in Syria.

Syria civil war: The worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century

The third wave of globalisation, which some hold has veritably ended, presented an array of choices and challenges to firms of all sizes and forms. The whole world was a potential market for firms, as barriers to trade, commerce and business fell rapidly.

Between going ‘native’ and remaining ‘rooted’, do global companies have a choice?

In strictly instrumental terms leadership and power are of immense importance for outcomes. So is management. The 21st century with ongoing revolution in informatics renders the nature, form and application of the troika of leadership, management and power all the more salient.

In the 21st century, who sets the agenda wins

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said that he does not want his country to return to the late Soviet-era practice of having lifelong rulers. Most of these rulers died in power without a proper succession strategy.

Putin rejects idea of Soviet-style lifelong leaders for Russia while addressing war veterans

Russia on Monday said it was "bewildered" by fresh US sanctions and vowed to retaliate following what it called an "anti-Russian attack". The foreign ministry said the new sanctions on several Russians -- including a businessman tied to President Vladimir Putin and a disinformation operation accused of conspiring to manipulate the US 2018 midterm election -- "will not go unanswered.

Moscow vows to retaliate over new 'anti-Russian' United States sanctions

When the world was analysed in the categories of bipolar interaction, the presence of regional or sub-regional subsystems was subordinate to the logic of a global division into two worlds.

Seamless connectivity and the changing world order

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