Greg Mills

Jan 16, 2025 | mdpi.com | Greg Mills |Richard Morrow

1. IntroductionThomas Friedman produced The Lexus and the Olive Tree in 1999, on the cusp of the new millennium. A pro-globalisation tome, Friedman argues that technology has connected the world, making it ‘flat’, allowing greater input and participation from outside the developed world, or the West (Friedman, 2012).1The Lexus and the Olive Tree is based on an idea that the age of the nation state has ended and has been replaced by ‘globalisation’.

Jan 9, 2025 | rusi.org | Ray Hartley |Greg Mills

Ray Hartley and Dr Greg Mills5 Minute ReadThe recognition lavished on Angola’s President João Lourenço by the outgoing US administration exposes the West’s failure to champion democracy over strategic convenience in Africa. Fresh from his meeting with US President Joe Biden, Angola’s President João Lourenço was enjoying his new status as a global statesman, making pronouncements on conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East at his party’s congress.

Oct 23, 2024 | allafrica.com | Greg Mills |Ray Hartley

The location of Taiwan's liaison office threatens to once more land it in an awkward diplomatic situation that will eat at South Africa's credibility. South Africa's decision to demand that Taiwan move its representative office from Pretoria has grave implications for South Africa's sovereignty and risks upending South Africa's wider trade and investment relations with third parties for no benefit, save fuzzier ties with another autocrat.

Sep 4, 2024 | brookings.edu | Greg Mills

Over the past 60 years, Africa has changed dramatically. It is imperative to end our business-as-usual approach to development. The demographic circumstances of Africa—where the continent will double its population over the next 25 years— demands that we strike out on a new, reformist path that will deliver higher growth and more opportunities, especially for this young cohort. If we fail to do so, it is reasonable to expect mass migration, political instability, and widespread state failure.

Aug 5, 2024 | allafrica.com | Greg Mills

The median age in Spain is 44 years and in Africa, it's 18.8. As a consequence, by 2050, the population of Africa is expected to have doubled to 2.5 billion, with 60% living in its cities. In Spain, the population is projected to rise to 52 million, but with the largest segment aged between 40-70 years.