Episode 115 – A Reflection on the G20 Summit South Africa 2025
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The world is getting weird.
In Episode 115, Dr. Michael Wankpa sits down with Professor Daniel Bradlow to reflect on the G20 Summit in South Africa. But this wasn’t a normal summit. With President Trump boycotting the event and global tensions at an all-time high, we have to ask… is the old world order collapsing?
We discuss the “lawless” state of global politics… including the recent US bombings in Nigeria and the removal of leadership in Venezuela. Prof. Bradlow explains why the US is voluntarily withdrawing from its role as a global leader and what that vacuum means for Africa.
About the Guest
Professor Daniel Bradlow is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria and a global expert on international financial law.
About the Podcast
The Conflict & Development in Africa podcast brings experts from Africa and the world as guests to discuss critical conflict and development issues that affect Africa. Our guests include practitioners, academics, journalists, researchers, policy makers and advocates that are renowned and are nationally and internationally recognized for their work, expertise and contribution to conflict and development issues in Africa. Our audience includes policy makers, governments, researchers, students, businesses and anyone that is interested in conflict and development issues in Africa.
About the Host
Dr Michael Nwankpa has an extensive experience spanning over a decade studying, researching, writing and consulting on conflict and development issues in Africa.
Michael Nwankpa has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He has held several research fellowships including as a Rice University Fellow and a terrorism research Fellow (past) at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. He is currently a fellow at the Royal United Service Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) and a research fellow at the Geneva-based Centre on Armed Groups. Dr. Nwankpa has extensive experience studying counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies, advising relevant government development departments and security agencies, and consulting for multilateral organizations. Michael is the author of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, 1999-2021: A Militarized Democracy (Routledge 2022) and co-author of the seminal work on Boko Haram, The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (Oxford University Press/Hurst 2018). He has written several articles and is currently working on three book projects.