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After a surprising election result, Europe is closely watching German coalition negotiations. A so-called Jamaica coalition of conservatives, liberals and greens is the most…
Morgan Bazilian, Peri-Khan Aqrawi-Whitcomb, Paasha Mahdavi, and Cyril Widdershoven examine the similaritires and differences between an independent Kurdistan and South Sudan.…
llan Manor examines digital diplomats’ ability to reach new audiences and construct competing versions of reality.
In 1987, James Der Derian conceptualized diplomacy as…
Under Donald Trump, US federal drug policy has undergone a fairly dramatic reversal. The Obama administration’s criticisms of the ‘war on drugs’ are gone, replaced by a seeming…
This is a transcript of a talk given by David Held at the Federazione Nazionale dei Cavalieri del Lavoro as part of a conference on ‘The Challenge to Western Democracies: The role…
C.J. Polychroniou on recent developments in Europe, including Brexit, Catalonia, Greece and the rise of the extreme right.
Since the outbreak of the euro crisis, which was…
The world’s population is ageing. Improvements in healthcare in the past century have meant people are living longer, but this has also resulted in an increase in the number of…
Democracy worldwide faces deep challenges. But good ideas can help overcome them.
Is democracy the only kind of political system that can deliver on prosperity and stability? This…
Exploring the EU’s Legitimacy Crisis: The Dark Heart of Europe by Christian Schweiger. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (New Horizons in European Politics series) 2016. 296 pp, £85…
Sherri Goodman, Caitlin Werrell, Francesco Femia and Shiloh Fetzek argue that due to advances in our ability to predict unprecedented risks states have a combined ‘Responsibility…