As a policy, the Greens decision to not support military assistance to Ukraine is a deeply flawed one. As a political position it is self-defeating, too.
Washington needs to take the realities of Chinese advances seriously.
Ngaire Woods, Dean of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, Claas Mertens, also at Oxford, have written a piece arguing that Europe, despite its attempts at self-sufficiency, remains dependent on an unpredictable United States. The continent needs to address this vulnerability so that it can convince other countries, many of which find themselves similarly vulnerable to great-power coercion, that it is a worthy partner.
Charles Kupchan, who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, argues that many aspects of Trump's foreign policy are worth keeping and align with changes in the international system. He explains how the next president can marry the good impulses of "America first" with the best of liberal internationalism.
“The NPP government made a sensible decision to accept and continue most of the economic policies and programs Ranil Wickremesinghe introduced.”
The government must rebuild public trust in the police force and insulate law enforcement from political influence.
If the new security framework fails to adopt a holistic approach to counterterrorism, it will once again end up treating the symptoms while ignoring the causes.
Growing political polarization has the potential to undermine Manila’s ability to handle its ongoing maritime disputes with Beijing.
Is the Malaysian Indian Congress using Hindu identity politics to regain its political relevance ahead of the next general election?
Citing the lack of action on promised reforms, the global index provider has proposed demoting the country from "emerging market" to "standalone market" status.
Sur les 28 000 immigrés expulsés des Etats-Unis entre le début de 2025 et août 2026, plus de 500 ont été envoyés sur le continent africain, selon les données du Deportation Data Project. La plupart du temps, ils n’ont pas de lien direct avec les pays d’Afrique.
Asphyxiée par une pollution-record et paralysée par un gouvernement inactif, la capitale irakienne suffoque. Entre un air irrespirable, des infrastructures obsolètes et l'absence d'investissements, les 10 millions d'habitants de la mégapole luttent chaque jour pour respirer. / Pollution, Irak, (…)
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Ville,
Climat,
Automobile,
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Depuis le coup de force du président tunisien, il y a cinq ans, une chape de plomb s’est abattue sur le pays. Une marche s’est malgré tout tenue à Tunis samedi 17 octobre, à l’appel de nombreuses organisations syndicales et de la société civile.
« Madagascar, un an après le coup d’Etat » (3/4). Vivant en exil depuis octobre 2025, l’ancien chef de l’Etat s’efforce de mobiliser son réseau diplomatique loin de son pays, même si ses leviers d’action demeurent limités.
La possibilité de déplacer la production là où les salaires sont plus bas et les protections sociales plus faibles met les salariés du monde entier en concurrence. Depuis sa création en 1919, par le traité de Versailles aux côtés de la Société des nations (SDN), l'Organisation internationale du (…)
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Travail,
Syndicalisme
Les images ont fait le tour du monde : pillages, commerces incendiés, migrants fuyant en masse, assassinats. Si l'Afrique du Sud a déjà connu des flambées xénophobes, le mouvement du printemps 2026 frappe par son ampleur et sa résonance internationale. Alors qu'elle s'enfonce dans une profonde (…)
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Zimbabwe,
Afrique du Sud,
Immigrés,
Violence,
Chômage,
Racisme
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Richard Fontaine, former members of the National Security Council, argue that the members of what they call the “axis of upheaval”—Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea—are deepening their cooperation. Meanwhile, Washington is creating friction with many of its own partnerships. If these developments continue unabated, the United States will squander the strength of its network just as its adversaries learn to make the most of theirs.
Former U.S. NATO ambassador Ivo Daalder argues that the scramble to shore up Europe's conventional defense risks overlooking the continent's greatest security weakness: nuclear deterrence. Europe knows it can't fully trust Washington's guarantee anymore. But he lays out a middle path between dependence and nuclearization that would extend France's and the United Kingdom's nuclear umbrella—a course, he argues, that could even repair the transatlantic alliance.
The exercise reflects two trends: the Indian military’s deepening interoperability with key partner nations, and India’s multi-vector foreign policy.
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