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27 June 2024
Andy Sumner scopes the potential future of the UK's international development policy. The UK election is at hand. The campaign has been dominated by questions of what might change…
26 June 2024
Almut Wieland-Karimi, member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Group on Peacebuilding, argues that the West should apprehend the global power shift towards countries in Asia…
25 June 2024
Lukas Märtin argues that an EU terror listing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) would be legally possible. The public debate within the EU of whether to take this…
21 June 2024
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter. Random House Publishing Group; Reprint edition (20 April 2021) Zachary Carter’s…
17 June 2024
Cornelius Adebahr and Monika Sus details ENGAGE´s 10-point plan - presented to EU policymakers just days after the European election - to make the EU a stronger global actor. The…
11 June 2024
Brian Stoddart on the interconnections and tensions between South Indian politics and film. The world has showered India with justifiable praise for its successful conduct of the…
11 June 2024
Theory tells us that democracies should become more equal. So why are they still so unequal? Gideon Coolin, Emanuele Sapienza, and Andy Sumner on their new…
10 June 2024
Far right and hardline conservative parties may emerge as the third-biggest political force in the European Parliament. Every five years, citizens of European Union (EU)…
03 June 2024
Amin Naeni explores what a second term for Trump may mean for Iran.  There’s been much talk in recent months about what a possible second Donald Trump presidency in the…
30 May 2024
Alfredo Toro Hardy explores Trump’s foreign policy record to discern what a second term may entail.   In 2001 George W. Bush’s and his neoconservatives arrived in…