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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Liana Fix |Ebenezer Obadare |Michael Kimmage |Hal Brands
Since its founding in 1922, has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. The magazine has featured contributions from many leading international affairs experts.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
cfr.org | Ebenezer Obadare
In 2019, as speculation grew that he was quietly orchestrating a run for a legally dubious third term of office at the expiration of his tenure the following year, pressure mounted on Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara to show his hand. When the president eventually spoke, his remarks did little to put his compatriots and international observers at ease.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Ebenezer Obadare
As the United States and its allies attempt to steer a new diplomatic course in Africa amid intensifying geopolitical competition with China and Russia, the idea has steadily gained ground that the West should abandon its standard insistence on adherence to basic human rights from its potential partners.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Ebenezer Obadare
Contrary to doomsayers, liberal democracy is building up a head of steam on the continent. To judge by the tone of commentary coming out of Africa in recent times, liberal democracy could not be in a more perilous state, so perilous indeed that anywhere you look across the continent, disenchanted Africans are desperate to replace it with a "homegrown" alternative.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Ebenezer Obadare
IMMIGRATIONAn Immigration Debate Worth HavingPublished 16 November 2024The best immigration policy is one that helps developing countries hold on to their best. For anyone who has been paying attention, the role of immigration in the just concluded presidential election (it ranked behind only the economy as the reason cited by voters for their choice of candidate) could not have come as a surprise.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Ebenezer Obadare
The continent's case for "global restructuring" is muddled. Although African countries would seem to be of one mind in regard to the perceived "historical injustice" believed to have been meted out to the continent by the dominant powers in the international system, there is little agreement on how to go about seeking redress.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Ebenezer Obadare
Across the region, the promise of a better life under the military is fast turning into a nightmare. In recent times, as the military knocked off one civilian regime after another across the Sahel, observers were disconcerted by the prospect of a region-wide capitulation to autocracy and the rapturous reception accorded the ascendant juntas by the civilian populace.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Ebenezer Obadare
Why a dangerous reliance on miracles matters for ethics and policy. Can God swing an examination in favor of a supplicant, regardless of her level of preparedness? Can an unarmed individual emerge unscathed from assailants wielding AK-47 rifles, having somehow managed to deflect live bullets with nothing but her bare hands? What, in a word--and insofar as such a thing actually exists--are the limits of miraculous intervention?
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Michelle Gavin |Ebenezer Obadare
Senior Fellows Michelle Gavin and Ebenezer Obadare discuss the role of Africa in American politics and how U.S.-Africa policy might change in a potential Trump or Harris administration. The transcript of this conversation has been edited for clarity.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Ebenezer Obadare
The great tragedy of Nigerian tertiary education is the debasement of its professoriate. When, last month, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the umbrella body of Nigerian university teachers, forwarded a formal twenty one-day strike notice to the Federal Government (FG), it raised the specter of further disruption to a tertiary education system that, over the past twenty five years, has seen one industrial action too many.
