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C. J. Polychroniou argues that Trump is accelerating European strategic autonomy.
The European Union came into existence in 1992 with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty,…
Toro Hardy compares the utterly different strengths shown by China and the late Soviet Union as America’s rivals. …
No firewall can save a democracy. As Robert Schuett argues, we must fortify our shared democratic minds.
On 21 May 2025, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) joined…
The global landscape of development cooperation is fracturing. The promise of the 2030 Agenda and the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals is giving way to geopolitical…
Scott Montgomery on Trump's attack on intellectual culture.
Why has the Trump Administration gone after universities, particularly the Ivy League, with such a vengeance? The…
As the fifth round of talks on 23 May in Rome showed, Washington's latest demand for "zero enrichment" collides with the Islamic Republic's insistence on maintaining its nuclear…
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies must be tied to new subsidies that raise living standards for working and poor people.
The bad news on climate change is plentiful. For one,…
This is the seventh chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'Decolonial Education and Youth Aspirations'. Moffat Machiwenyika and Abass B. Isiaka unpick the mosaic nature…
This is the ninth chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective', edited by Marina…
Economic inequality is a global phenomenon. And while the data suggests that inequality between countries has fallen, inequality within countries has risen. China, for instance, a…