Victor Angelo

  Vivências e Reflexões Geopolíticas ("Experiences and Geopolitical Reflections") is a book by Victor Ângelo that offers a unique...

I have learned that a true leader sees it as his or her mission to create broad alliances, to bring people of different convictions toget...

Many thinkers in our part of the world are advocating for a changed world. They are convinced the current global health crisis is a golde...

In any democratic society, as we understand them in our part of the world, to rule by decree or by Presidential Orders can only be accept...

I said before that brevity is a sign of intelligence. And I am still convinced that is the case. The problem is that I have a few friends...

Many of us are now getting tired of the lockdown. This is, therefore, a dangerous period, when people start looking for opportunities to ...

You call it a war, but you keep acting as if there was no need to reorganise the entire production to win the war. When you are at war, you...

During my professional life I had to interact with intelligence personnel. Most of them were very bright people, others were just good at...

The French political atmosphere is not acceptable. There is too much mass violence on the streets, too many social demands that are far f...

The political fights are about emotions and instincts. The ideas must have a strong and clear human dimension to get enough support.

Leadership is about empathy with the ordinary person on the street. The leader must be perceived as a caring and committed individual.

For many opportunistic politicians, the truth is a MIA – missing in action. Values have been kicked aside, in today’s partisan disputes. ...

As I look at leaders ‘meeting, and the way they look at their own forces, always over-estimating the capacity of their forces and inter-s...

In politics, we tend to forget that to be principled is different from being dogmatic. A principled leader knows the goal posts, keep...

We should always remember the wise aphorism about politics. It goes like this: in politics everything could mean the opposite of what it ...

At my conference, this afternoon, I was asked about the Gilets Jaunes, the French demonstrators that took to the streets every Saturday f...

As I get ready to address a key civil society association that brings together several prominent NGOs and citizens’ groups on matters of ...

The glass might be empty, but it is not broken. 

There is no problem if one keeps repeating the same message because most people are not listening, even when they pretend to. The only ad...

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. A very political word. Also, a tactical concept, a guide for inaction and avoiding hard decisions, moments ...