While defence public sector units have been making efforts to increase their marketing footprint, they will have to succeed in a highly competitive export market.
The complexity and interconnection of global supply chains has heightened the realisation of the need for supply chain resilience and self-reliance in production.
Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons use, dreadfully experienced in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has had little policy impact on concluding a genuine nuclear disarmament convention.
The controversy regarding President Vladimir Putin’s participation in the BRICS Summit at Johannesburg due to an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court highlights the geopolitical overtones and inadequacies of the ICC in the contemporary world.
