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C. J. Polychroniou explores how Elon Musk is using his social media platform to communicate directly with hundreds of millions, bypassing traditional media channels with…

Looking at the case of Germany, Cornelius Adebahr argues that far-right parties' recent successes with voters is often based on real deficiencies in democratic systems and a…

Alfredo Toro Hardy pushes back against domestic worries over the UK's wanning global influence.  By the end of World War I, British world hegemonic power had practically…

This post represents the introduction to a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective', edited by…

This is the second chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective', edited by…

"The biggest problem with regulated capitalism is that it is simply not sustainable in the long run," said the economist. In the 1990s, all the talk was about the end of socialism…

The coming debt crisis will surpass that of the 1980s and disproportionately impact women, economist Ilene Grabel warns. Countries across the Global South are experiencing climate…

Iulia-Alexandra Oprea, Associate Fellow at Center for Middle East and Global Order, explores Turkey's use of populist narratives to legitimize its recent assertiveness on the…

In this column, Alfredo Toro Hardy resorts to Isaiah Berlin’s metaphor of the hedgehog and the fox to examine China’s contrasting strategies of the last decades. Isaiah Berlin…

Martha Molfetas argues that regardless of recent events, it is still cheaper to save the planet than destroy it. Maybe the eternally burning mountain of natural gas should have…