Welcome all to the first article for the year 2020. This year has already gotten off to an intense start with several noteworthy geopolitical events occurring within just the first two months. In January Australia caught fire, the USA bombed and killed high ranking Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and on the cusp of February the UK decided how to BREXIT. Moving into February we saw the outbreak of COVID-19, commonly referred to as the Coronavirus take a drastic turn and be declared a global pandemic by many nations, the global stock market was sent into a downward spiral as a result of the growing viral threat and the USA signed a peace deal with the Taliban after two decades of fighting. All of these events have happened within only two months, who can even guess at what is to come. Maybe Elon Musk will start his own country or launch something else into orbit. This is just a short summary of what has happened with many more important events also occurring. Many of these topics as well as unlisted ones will be the focus of upcoming articles by our fantastic writing team, so peel your eyeballs for those. We will also be following on from articles written last year and keep you all up to date with developing situations, such as the Turkish incursion into Syria, the current political situation in South Sudan and how warfare has changed during the turn of the decade. I think personally 2020 will be a chaotic year for international affairs, in particular, because it is the first time since 2003 that the world has experienced a global pandemic in the form of the Coronavirus. How nations handle the outbreak, how it impacts international relations and what it will do to domestic governments is unpredictable and undoubtedly will have a significant impact on most of the globe.
Last year we said goodbye to our editor-in-chief Ryan, who has since moved to greener pastures. Sonali and I have taken over the joint role of editors in chief of Pivot, with Ryan still watching over us from afar. Our writing team has expanded with several new faces soon to be added, meaning more articles and a whole range of new ideas and writing styles. Our writing team still maintains a diverse range of students including Science, Biomed, Arts, Law, and global studies students. With this talent pool we hope to introduce to our reader’s, ideas and perspectives that can not be found in traditional media. In the coming days we will be covering the results of Super Tuesday, the renewed impact of International Women’s day, an Australian take on Government Trust and the future of trade between the UK and the EU in a post-BREXIT Eurozone. Stay tuned for our next article on the results of Super Tuesday and what they will mean for the US election and the Democrat party.
