Hydropolitics

Hydropolitiek 04/11/2019 - In Hydropolitiek, Haroon Sheikh analyzes the dynamics of the world's seas. Canals are being dug to create new sea connections, artificial islands are being created and countries are competing for access to the ports of island nations and for new routes along the melting North Pole. What do the shifting power relations at sea mean… Read More
EU-Oman: Small and effective 29/03/2019 - In a time of a changing world order, where smaller countries lack certainty, Oman should be a member of a League of Small Pioneers. The global multilateral order is under pressure. Institutions that have been in place since the Second World War to foster cooperation - the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, the… Read More
Embedding Technopolis 14/08/2017 - The global village is under pressure. In order to protect local communities and their traditions, walls, real and symbolical, are erected across the globe. In Turkey, Russia and China cosmopolitanism seems to be giving way to rediscoveries of tradition like Ottomanism, Eurasianism and Confucianism. In Embedding Technopolis, Sheikh rethinks modernity and tradition and gives insight… Read More