2019 was a year of global unrest, spurred by anger at rising inequality – and 2020 is likely to be worse
- Written by Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
2019 may well go down as the most disrupted year in global politics since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the subsequent implosion of the former Soviet Union.
However, the likelihood is that 2020 will be worse, and bloodier.
Conditions that spawned global unrest on every continent in 2019 are unlikely to recede. Rather, they are likely to...