When independence came 36 years ago, I was soaked by the rains that made their providential entry, as if attempting to obliterate a past that distorted all of us and ushering in hope for a more humane future. As I…

Realism and its variants remain one of the dominant theories of international relations. Why? Because it engages with war and conflict, regular conditions of the international system.  Also, because the Westphalian state system is its point of departure, a system…