Richard Morrow

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Articles

The Donkey and the Thorn Tree: Reappraising Globalisation and Africa

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(Friedman, 2012).1The Lexus and the Olive Tree is based on an idea that the age of the nation state has ended and has been replaced by ‘globalisation’.
AGOA at a Crossroads

Dec 6, 2024 | cfr.org | Richard Morrow

The current language used by President-Elect Donald Trump suggests that global trade is set to undergo a period of radical transformation when he returns to the White House in January. The prospect of a protectionist trade agenda underscored by sweeping tariffs is proving a major concern for many governments, and none—ally or otherwise—are seemingly safe.
Biden has been a disappointment for democracy in Africa

Oct 12, 2024 | thehill.com | Richard Morrow

One of President Biden’s final state visits was slated be to Angola this week — it would have been his first visit to the African continent as president. However, the White House announced on Tuesday the trip was being postponed due to Hurricane Milton. The decision to travel to the Lusophone nation on the eve of his departure from the Oval Office was certainly not the grand tour he nor many on the continent had thought (or hoped) would transpire.
Ukraine in Africa — the possibilities of asymmetrical diplomacy

Sep 8, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Richard Morrow

OP-ED Diplomacy is a domain where, like the battlefield, Ukraine can make inroads by using innovative and unorthodox measures. A hallmark of Ukraine’s military success in its David and Goliath battle with Russia since the latter’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, has been its use of asymmetrical warfare.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hepatitis C Treatment Initiation in British Columbia, Canada: An Interrupted Time Series Study

Apr 23, 2024 | mdpi.com | Richard Morrow |Mawuena Binka |Julia Li |Mike Irvine

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History shows us that without dialogue there can be no diplomacy

Nov 22, 2023 | dailymaverick.co.za | Richard Morrow

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS OP-ED Closing the Israeli embassy in Pretoria risks undermining the bedrock of diplomacy – dialogue. In August 2018, I had lunch with French Ambassador Pierre Vimont in the alpine village of Alpbach, nestled in southern Austria near the city of Innsbruck. Over the course of our meal, I probed him with a series of questions – one of which came to dominate our conversation. “What is perhaps one of the biggest diplomatic blunders a country can make?” I asked.
Our sense of togetherness is in decline and world upheaval is likely to worsen before it improves

Oct 16, 2023 | dailymaverick.co.za | Richard Morrow

WORLD DISORDER The world is becoming increasingly dangerous and polarised – do we have a system to rectify this? On the morning of Saturday 7 October, Israelis woke to the harrowing news that Hamas forces had entered Israel, leaving many to ask the obvious question: How did this happen? Few would have thought that Saturday’s events were possible.
A contemporary strategy for Israel in Africa

Aug 1, 2023 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Richard Morrow

Israel’s relationship with Africa has ebbed and flowed over the decades. When Israelis first began working across the continent in the second half of the 20th century – whether it be in agriculture, healthcare, or security – they were lauded for their expertise and dogged, dare I say Israeli, mindset. During this ‘Golden Era’ as it came to be known, Israel built friendships with many of the continent’s newly independent nations.
NETANYAHU COALITION OP-ED: Israel’s democratic stress test: One man’s statesman is another man’s populist

Apr 4, 2023 | dailymaverick.co.za | Richard Morrow

NETANYAHU COALITION OP-ED Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stuck between a rock and a hard place. After his ousting in 2021, the man viewed as being synonymous with Israeli politics spent the subsequent months painstakingly sewing together an alliance that could contest the 2022 elections. The result: a coalition government comprising parties across the political right. Observing last Wednesday’s events within the Israeli Knesset – the country’s parliament – felt peculiar.