After Pope John XXIII died, Paul VI used three encyclical letters to defeat the conciliarism of Vatican II, and advance papal absolutism in areas like indulgences, celibacy, and birth control.
Europe’s increasing military shortcomings need addressing. If Europeans aspire to exert real influence over international security affairs, they must do so collectively, or not at all.
The BRICS should be considering how to deepen their global agenda, or how to expand by including new states, like Egypt, which can enhance their power and legitimacy in the global south.
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has difficulty in understanding the new opposition and it is not clear that he has a particularly profound understanding of liberal democracy.
The terrorism of Boko Haram should be considered a movement of restoration since their demand continues to be the enforcement of sharia in the spirit of Usman Dan Fodio.
Egyptian seculars fail to comprehend the dangerous predicament they have created by inviting the military to remove a democratically elected president, jeopardising Egypt’s democratic transition.
If the media continues along the path of seeking to punish elected officials for sexual scandals the effect will only be to discourage good people from public service.
ASEAN has demonstrated that it remains true to itself, seeking methods for making its own integration efforts more efficient without departing from its long established principles of cooperation.
There is much about this year’s classes at CEFAM to be happy. Now, it is time to look forward to a couple of weeks off before the new academic year gets underway in September.
Egypt represents an exceptional case of disregard for structural authority, which undermines the need for formal governance and the purpose of the state.
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