Introduction For at least two decades, global public opinion has focused on tectonic shifts in global governance marked by visible social, political, and economic fissures. More recently, sharp domestic and external changes by significant global powers have intensified debates, anxieties, and

By Bob Wekesa Introduction Since January 2025, the US global policy has shifted radically. The reset has spared no country or region, including the West. Essentially, the West comprises the US and Europe. It is based on centuries-old transatlantic relations between North

Introduction In 2024, the African Center for the Study of the United States at the University of the Witwatersrand (Republic of South Africa) commissioned a study entitled “African Agency Toward Global Powers: A View from Regional Economic Blocs”.Agency, in a nutshell, refers

We are pleased to share the July 2026 edition of the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) Newsletter, highlighting the Centre's recent programmes, research, partnerships, and engagements. This edition features African Agency in a Shifting Global Order:

By IJR Johannesburg, 2–3 July 2026 – African policymakers, scholars, civil society representatives and international affairs experts gathered at the University of the Witwatersrand for a roundtable discussion on “African Agency in a Shifting Global Order: African Priorities on the Reform of

Image:The Youth Cafe Abstract This paper examines unconstitutional and extra-constitutional changes of government in Africa as legal, political, and geopolitical phenomena that are frequently mischaracterised when analysed solely through domestic constitutional doctrine or conventional coup typologies. It argues that contemporary political convulsions