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A stronger future for coffee starts by strengthening the places and communities where that journey begins. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPS

By Boubaker Ben Belhassen
ROME, Sep 30 2026 (IPS)

Imagine your morning coffee. You smell the aroma as steam rises from the cup. It wisps and swirls, thins, then disappears. You lift the cup to your mouth. The first pure joy of the day.

That coffee may have begun beneath shade trees in Ethiopia, on a Colombian hillside, in Viet Nam’s highlands or among the coffee farms of Brazil. Long before it reached your cup, someone planted and tended the trees from which it came. Then came the harvest. Ripe cherries were picked with care, and the coffee began a journey that would carry it far from the place where it was grown.

Building a stronger future for coffee therefore begins where coffee itself begins: with productive and resilient farms, open and transparent markets, and greater economic opportunity in producing countries

Few agricultural products connect people across such long distances. Coffee is among the world’s most widely traded commodities. Coffee supports the livelihoods of up to 25 million farmers worldwide, while millions more people participate in the economic activity created along the coffee value chain.

Coffee’s extraordinary global reach has created livelihoods and economic opportunities across continents. It has also connected millions of small producers to a market in which shocks can propagate quickly. Building a stronger future for coffee therefore begins where coffee itself begins: with productive and resilient farms, open and transparent markets, and greater economic opportunity in producing countries.

International Coffee Day is a moment to celebrate what coffee has made possible. It is also a moment to ask what its future will require.

Recent years have shown why. International coffee prices have experienced large fluctuations as weather has affected production in major producing countries and supplies have tightened. Droughts, frosts and excessive rainfall can disrupt harvests, while pests, diseases, rising costs, geopolitical tensions and shipping delays can add further pressure.

That exposure is amplified by the concentration of production in relatively few places. Brazil and Viet Nam together account for nearly half of global coffee production, while five countries supply around 70 percent of global coffee bean exports. With such concentration, a shock in one major producing region can quickly reverberate far beyond it.

Those shocks are transmitted unevenly through coffee value chains, with producers generally more directly exposed to fluctuations in international prices. The answer is not to prevent prices from moving. Markets respond to changes in supply and demand, and prices will inevitably rise and fall. Greater resilience therefore depends on strengthening the capacity of producers and producing countries to adapt and respond when conditions change.

The first priority is production itself. Coffee farming must remain productive and competitive while adapting to changing conditions. More resilient farming systems, innovation and technology, effective management of pests and diseases, and better tools for managing risk can help stabilize production and incomes and boost investment in the future of the crop.

Transparent markets and timely information are essential. Better and timely information on crop conditions, stocks, trade flows and prices reduce uncertainty and help producers, governments and businesses understand changing market conditions and adjust sooner. At a time when disruption in one major producing region can affect markets around the world, international cooperation and greater transparency become even more important.

Stronger production and better markets provide the foundation. But there is also an opportunity to create more economic value from the coffee that producing countries already grow.

The bean’s economic journey is far from finished when it is harvested. Coffee is processed and transported, then may be roasted, packaged, branded, distributed and eventually sold to consumers. Each stage requires investment, expertise and enterprise, while creating opportunities to generate additional economic value.

Much of the coffee produced in low- and middle-income countries is exported in raw form as green beans for processing and distribution elsewhere. Coffee therefore often enters international trade relatively early in its economic journey, leaving opportunities for producing countries to develop more economic activity around the later stages of the value chain.

Where commercially viable, improvements in quality can help producers reach different and potentially higher-value markets. Processing can create additional economic activity, while certification and branding can provide further scope for upgrading within coffee value chains. The opportunities will vary across countries, and investments should focus on areas in which producers and businesses can compete successfully.

Greater resilience in coffee production and greater economic opportunity around what happens after it is produced are complementary ambitions. Productivity, innovation and risk management can strengthen the productive foundation of the sector. Transparent markets can help participants respond to changing conditions. And commercially viable upgrading can broaden the economic opportunities created around the crop.

Realising these opportunities requires cooperation across the coffee value chain. Producers, traders, processors, roasters, retailers and governments perform different roles in moving coffee from the tree to the consumer. International cooperation, market transparency, innovation and investment can strengthen those connections and support a coffee sector that is more productive, competitive, resilient and sustainable.

Coffee already demonstrates what international trade can achieve. A crop grown by millions of farmers, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries, reaches consumers across the world and sustains economic activity throughout its journey. The next opportunity not to miss is to strengthen this connection while creating more economic possibilities in the places where coffee is grown.

Tomorrow morning, the journey begins again. Steam will rise from your cup. Somewhere far away, coffee trees will be tended and another harvest prepared.

The journey from crop to cup already connects millions of people around the globe. A stronger future for coffee starts by strengthening the places and communities where that journey begins.

Boubaker Ben-Belhassen is Director of the Markets and Trade Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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Stronger farms and better markets can build a more resilient coffee economy

Khalilur Rahman (second from right), President of the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, chairs the High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten

By Shreya Komar
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 2026 (IPS)

The United Nations High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) on September 25 called for faster and more sustained investment in pandemic preparedness. Speakers emphasized that future outbreaks will require coordinated action across governments, health systems, and communities.

The meeting, held three years after the General Assembly’s first high-level meeting on pandemic preparedness, focused on lessons from COVID-19 and persistent gaps in global health security.

“No country can protect itself alone,” UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said, underscoring the need to turn the lessons of COVID-19 into long-term preparedness.

Opening the meeting, Dr. Khalilur Rahman, President of the General Assembly, highlighted three priorities: closing financing gaps, adopting a stronger “One Health” approach, and ensuring equitable access to vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics and other essential medical tools.

“All countries need and deserve well-funded community-based systems for detection, surveillance, communication and containment,” Rahman said, calling for predictable and sustainable financing. He also stressed that pandemic preparedness must address the links between human, animal and environmental health, arguing that stronger understanding of these interactions could help prevent outbreaks from reaching human populations. Equitable access to life-saving tools, he said, is both a matter of justice and a critical component of containing outbreaks.

In a press briefing held on the same day, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that global investment in health security has declined since the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, reviving what he described as a cycle of “panic and neglect.”

Although countries and international institutions have established new mechanisms for pandemic preparedness, Tedros said the scale and speed of investment remain insufficient.

The WHO has launched and supported a range of initiatives since the pandemic, including the Pandemic Fund, strengthened pandemic and epidemic intelligence, vaccine and medical countermeasure initiatives, the mRNA Technology Transfer Programme, the WHO BioHub System and the Global Health Emergency Corps.

Countries have also strengthened the international framework governing pandemic response. In 2024, WHO member states adopted amendments to the International Health Regulations, while the WHO Pandemic Agreement was adopted the following year.

However, recent outbreaks, including Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have underscored the continuing risk of infectious diseases crossing borders and becoming international threats. Tedros said the possibility of a future respiratory pandemic remains particularly concerning because of the potential scale of its impact.

A key issue still under negotiation is the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, which is intended to establish arrangements for sharing pathogen materials and information while ensuring that countries providing those resources benefit from vaccines, diagnostics and other products developed from them.

Tedros urged countries to conclude the negotiations. “So today, I leave you with just one request: get PABS done as soon as possible. Please conclude the negotiations as soon as possible,” he said. “We are as strong as our weakest link.”

He also emphasized the importance of investing in countries more vulnerable to pandemics, not as an act of charity, but rather as collective action against the common goal of pandemic prevention. Sustained financing and stronger international cooperation will be central to preventing future outbreaks from becoming global emergencies.

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Le couronnement de Kijanangoma intervient dans un contexte de conflit concernant un jeune héritier que le clan royal ne reconnaît pas.

Citizen participation, in various forms, has long played a part in African societies, with mixed results. In line with recent constitutional/decentralization reforms, Morocco and Kenya have shown political will and institutional commitment to invest more in participation. The chapter analyzes the two countries’ participatory approaches as a political agenda that is closely tied to decentralization politics and therewith to power plays between different stakeholders, including donors. Based on a comparison of the two cases, the chapter examines how the newly introduced spaces enable or disenable citizens to challenge power structures. The chapter finds that, despite positive effects in terms of citizen mobilization and partial accountability, the limited scope and scale of participatory institutions means that the outcomes of the approach are procedural rather than politically transformative. At the same time, the different trajectories of the two countries illustrate the importance of embedding the assessment of each case in the history of participatory practices and local political economy.

Citizen participation, in various forms, has long played a part in African societies, with mixed results. In line with recent constitutional/decentralization reforms, Morocco and Kenya have shown political will and institutional commitment to invest more in participation. The chapter analyzes the two countries’ participatory approaches as a political agenda that is closely tied to decentralization politics and therewith to power plays between different stakeholders, including donors. Based on a comparison of the two cases, the chapter examines how the newly introduced spaces enable or disenable citizens to challenge power structures. The chapter finds that, despite positive effects in terms of citizen mobilization and partial accountability, the limited scope and scale of participatory institutions means that the outcomes of the approach are procedural rather than politically transformative. At the same time, the different trajectories of the two countries illustrate the importance of embedding the assessment of each case in the history of participatory practices and local political economy.

REPORT on a new co-ownership for the future of Euro-Mediterranean relations – the Pact for the Mediterranean
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Nicola Zingaretti

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Seaweed farmers tend their crop off Zanzibar, where rising sea temperatures are putting pressure on a vital coastal livelihood, according to the new Copernicus ocean report. Credit: Zuberi Mussa/IPS

By Kizito Makoye
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Sep 30 2026 (IPS)

Fatuma Makame learned to farm seaweed in the shallow water where her parents worked. These days, she grows it farther from shore.

In the shallows, warmer water has left the crop more vulnerable to poor growth and disease. Conditions can be better farther out, but working there requires a boat, equipment, and the skills to handle deeper water. Makame joined Mwani Zanzibar Mamas—a cooperative union that obtained a boat and farming gear. She has since reported larger, more reliable harvests.

The decision she faced is becoming familiar to seaweed farmers along Zanzibar’s coast: move the crop, if they can afford to, or keep planting where it has become harder to grow.

A new assessment of the world’s oceans gives that local difficulty a wider context. The 10th Copernicus Ocean State Report, released today (September 30), describes an ocean absorbing more heat, rising along coastlines and becoming more acidic. It was produced by Mercator Ocean International through the European Union’s Copernicus Marine Service.

“The ocean is transforming before our eyes: warming, rising seas and ecosystem degradation are interconnected signs of significant and long-term change. It is our responsibility to build the permanent capacity to anticipate this transformation,” said Pierre Bahurel, director-general of Mercator Ocean International.

According to the report, the global ocean absorbed an additional 23 zettajoules of heat in 2025 — roughly 40 times the energy the world consumed that year. Global mean sea level rose by an average of 3.8 millimetres a year between 1999 and 2025; the rate was 4.2 millimetres a year from 2012 to 2025. The report also says the ocean became approximately 17 percent more acidic between 1985 and 2025.

Those are global measurements. They do not describe the water at Makame’s farm or explain the result of any one planting season. But Zanzibar’s seaweed farmers have had to contend with warmer water for years.

Across Unguja and Pemba, seaweed provides income for thousands of households, many of them headed or supported by women. Farmers tie seedlings to lines, tend them in the water, then harvest and dry the crop for sale. A poor harvest can leave less money for food, school fees and the next planting.

The Food and Agriculture Organization has documented how warmer water can inhibit seaweed growth and make it more susceptible to disease. Moving farms into deeper, cooler water presents other difficulties: stronger currents can damage the crop, and many farmers cannot swim or lack the equipment to work there safely. Low prices further limit what they can spend on changing their methods.

Tanzanian marine scientist Narriman Jiddawi has documented related problems farther south, on Songo Songo Island. In one study commissioned by the Institute of Marine Sciences, she recorded unusually warm water and signs of disease at shallow farming sites that had been abandoned.

“Farming is failing in many cultivation sites in shallow intertidal areas where it used to grow well,” she said. Their measurements were taken at Songo Songo, not at Makame’s farm in Zanzibar.

The Copernicus report also examines the ocean territories of small island developing states. It finds that all their exclusive economic zones have experienced ocean warming since 1960. About 65% of their combined ocean area has been exposed to accelerating sea-level rise since 1999. Among the Indian Ocean members of that group, the figure is 33%

Zanzibar is part of Tanzania, rather than a separate small island developing state, so those percentages are not figures for the archipelago. The findings nevertheless speak to risks faced by island communities whose incomes and homes depend on the sea.

“Small Island Developing States are experiencing multiple dimensions of ocean change at once. Nearly two-thirds of their ocean territories are exposed to accelerating sea-level rise, while warming seas are increasing pressure on coral reefs, fisheries and coastal communities,” said Karina von Schuckmann, director of the Copernicus Ocean State Report.

“For island states, ocean change is not a distant environmental issue; it is an immediate economic, development and security challenge – and a warning of what many other coastlines will face in the future.”

For fishing families, the condition of coral reefs is one concern. Reefs provide habitat for fish and help reduce the force of waves reaching shore. Severe heat can cause corals to bleach, and repeated episodes can hinder their recovery.

The report finds that about a quarter of threatened coral reefs within the ocean territories of small island developing states experienced accumulated, mortality-level heat stress for at least one month between 1982 and 2025. That is a finding for those states collectively, not an assessment of Zanzibar’s reefs.

There is local evidence of damage. Researchers from the State University of Zanzibar examined reef observations spanning 1992 to 2016. They found severe declines in hard coral cover following the El Niño events of 1998 and 2016, though the extent of change differed substantially between reefs.

Heat is only one of the pressures on them. Pollution and damaging fishing practices can make recovery harder. Reducing those local pressures will not cool the Indian Ocean, but it may improve the prospects for reefs that survive a period of extreme heat.

Rising seas pose a separate challenge to coastal settlements. A World Bank assessment identifies Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania’s coast as vulnerable to erosion, flooding and damage to infrastructure and marine habitats.

For authorities deciding where to protect homes or restrict construction, measurements of tides, storms, reefs and mangroves need to be considered alongside what residents know about places where water already reaches houses and roads.

Through the Agriculture and Fisheries Development Programme, seaweed farmers in Unguja and Pemba have received training in planting, handling and processing. Improved drying racks and solar dryers help keep harvested seaweed away from sand and rain, reducing losses after it comes ashore.

Other farmers are exploring additional sources of income. FAO has trained seaweed farmers on Zanzibar’s east coast in sea cucumber cultivation. That work requires suitable sites, equipment and buyers and will not suit every household.

Financial protection is being explored as well. The United Nations Development Programme, Zanzibar’s disaster management authorities and the Ministry of Blue Economy and Fisheries are developing a climate-risk insurance proposal for seaweed farmers in Unguja and Pemba. It remains a proposal. Its usefulness will depend on which losses it covers, what farmers must pay, and how quickly they can settle a claim.

For Makame, the cooperative’s boat and gear made it possible to try farming farther offshore. Other farmers still work the shallows. Whether they can follow her depends on access to equipment, training and a way to bear the risk if a new method fails.

The Copernicus report tracks changes across decades. On Zanzibar’s coast, a farmer must decide where to put her next lines of seaweed.

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While the 10th Copernicus Ocean State Report documents the ocean's transformation with increased heat, rising sea levels and its acidity – Zanibar's seaweed farmers feel its impact with every crop.

 

A 2026. szeptember 21–27. közötti héten több érdekellentétnek is a tanúi lehettünk. Míg New Yorkban a nemzetközi multilateralizmus intézményi reformja és a nagyhatalmi polarizáció állt a viták középpontjában, addig a latin-amerikai térségben az autoriter hatalomkoncentráció és a külső hatalmi befolyás mélyülése jelent újabb kihívást. Ezzel párhuzamosan az európai ellátási láncok és az energiabiztonság védelme közvetlen katonai szerepvállalást követelt meg a Közel-Keleten. Az alábbiakban a BSZK Euramerika Műhely heti stratégiai összefoglalója olvasható.

 

1. Törésvonalak és reformkövetelések az ENSZ Közgyűlésének vitáján

Az ENSZ Közgyűlésének 81. ülésszaka 2026. szeptember 8-án nyílt meg New Yorkban, a magas szintű általános vita pedig szeptember 22-én, kedden kezdődött. Habár a fórum elsődleges célja az államok közötti konstruktív párbeszéd, a vezető államok felszólalásai ismét a nemzeti érdekek és a polarizáció mentén alakultak.. Jó példa erre az amerikai adminisztráció, Donald Trump elnök saját eredményeinek hangsúlyozására fókuszált. Irán Donald Trump korábbi fenyegetéseire válaszolva kijelentette, hogy nem hagyja magát és kész tárgyalni, azonban a Hormuzi-szoros kapcsán kijelentette, nem engedi, hogy elvitassák hajózási jogát. A szolidaritás jegyében több ország küldöttei is elhagyták a termet Netanjahu beszéde előtt, bár ez cseppet sem hatotta meg az izraeli kormányfőt. Az Európai Unió részéről António Costa hangsúlyozta, hogy az ENSZ-nek továbbra is központi szerepet kell betöltenie a multilaterális rendszerben, ehhez azonban egy hatékonyabb és eredményesebb ENSZ-re van szükség.

 

(Forrás: ENSZ, Európai Külügyi Szolgálat)

 

2. GHREN-jelentés: Rendszerszintű jogsértések és orosz közeledés Nicaraguában

Szeptemberben megjelent jelentésében az ENSZ nicaraguai emberi jogi szakértői csoportja (GHREN) megállapította, hogy Daniel Ortega és a felesége, Rosario Murillo (társelnök), által vezetett kormány rendszerszintű emberiesség elleni bűncselekményeket követett el állampolgáraival szemben. A jelentés többek között kényszereltűnésekkel és a politikai indíttatású megtorlásokkal állapított meg. Nem segíti a helyzetet, hogy Ortega elnök az idén novemberre kitűzött választásokat először be akarta tiltatni, végül 2028-ra tolta ki a dátumot. További aggodalmakra ad okot, hogy az ENSZ közgyűlési felszólalásában a nicaraguai külügyminiszter megerősítette, hogy országa szövetségre lép Oroszországgal a „fasizmus elleni harcban” és méltatta a BRICS-országok növekvő erejét a nyugati befolyással szemben.

 

(Forrás: BBC News)

 

3. Francia haderő Szaúd-Arábiában

Az elmúlt időszakban a jemeni húszi lázadók sorozatos rakéta- és dróntámadásokat intéztek a szaúdi olajterminálok ellen. Mivel a Vörös-tenger partján fekvő janbui létesítmény közvetlenül felelős Európa energiabiztonságát és a dízelolaj-ellátást Emmanuel Macron bejelentette, hogy Franciaország katonai erőket telepít Szaúd-Arábiába, hogy ezt az olajkikötőt és annak energetikai infrastruktúráját. Jean-Noël Barrot francia külügyminiszter a France 2 csatornának adott nyilatkozatában nyomatékosította, hogy a katonai támogatás kizárólag védelmi feladatokat lát el. Franciaország nem válik hadviselő féllé a húszik elleni konfliktusban, a cél csupán a globálisan is kritikus fontosságú janbui finomítók és csővezetékek biztosítása, ezt Macron elnök is később megerősítette.

 

(Forrás: Le Monde)

 

Összeállította: Rohoska Réka (Euramerika Műhely)

Rovat: Hírfigyelő / Euramerika

 

A Heti Gyorsjelentés: Törésvonalak az ENSZ-ben, nicaraguai válság és francia védelmi jelenlét a Vörös-tengernél (2026.09.21–27.) bejegyzés először Biztonságpolitika-én jelent meg.

Kína

Szeptemberben számos esemény történt a Távol-Kelet térségében, ezek közül ebben a hírfigyelőben a Kínával kapcsolatos hírek fognak a középpontba kerülni. A Reuters nemzetközi hírügynökség 2026. szeptember 3.-ai beszámolója szerint a kínai Természeti Erőforrások Minisztériuma a múlt hónapban felmérést végzett Tajvantól keletre fekvő vizekről, amely állításuk szerint segít majd „egyetlen térkép” létrehozásában a területi tervezéshez és az erőforrás-gazdálkodáshoz. Tajvan folyamatos tengeri provokációnak tekinti a hajókkal elvégzett méréseket és figyelemmel kíséri a további, valamint az ehhez hasonló műveleteket.

Szeptember közepén került megrendezésre az éves védelmi fórum a pekingi Hsziangsanban. A kínai katonai vezetés várhatóan felvázolja globális biztonsági céljait, amelyen új felhívást fog intézni a többpólusú világon belüli szorosabb nemzetközi együttműködésre, de valószínűleg burkolt támadásokat is fog intézni az Egyesült Államok és szövetségesei ellen.

2026. szeptember 21-én, hétfőn Kína kizárta a Kommunista Pártból és a hadseregből két magas rangú katonai vezetőt, Zhang Youxia-t és Liu Zhenlit. Az esetről egy hivatalos közleményt is kiadtak, amelyben hűtlenségre, korrupcióra és más súlyos fegyelmi vétségekre hivatkoztak.

Donald Trump amerikai elnök és Hszi Csin-ping kínai elnök 2026. szeptember 24-én találkozott Washingtonban, a kínai államfő szeptember 23–25. közötti hivatalos állami látogatásának keretében. Ez volt a két vezető második csúcstalálkozója 2026-ban, a májusi pekingi találkozójuk után. A felek többek között egyeztettek a korábbi kereskedelmi megállapodások végrehajtásáról és a kereskedelmi fegyverszünet fenntartásáról, Tajvanról, a mesterséges intelligenciáról és más további technológiai mechanizmusokról, ritkaföldfémek és egyéb meghatározó kritikus nyersanyagokról és nem utolsó sorban a nemzetközi helyzetről, középpontban Iránnal.

A CBS News beszámolója szerint a csúcstalálkozó nem hozott jelentős áttörést, de az elemzők szerint a szorosabb együttműködés felé tett lépések fontosak voltak. Kína és az Egyesült Államok megállapodott egy mesterséges intelligenciával kapcsolatos incidensek kezelésére szolgáló csatorna létrehozásában, valamint egyetértési megállapodást ír alá a válságkommunikáció megerősítéséről és a két hadsereg közötti válságok megelőzéséről.

– Fodor Balázs

Tajvan

A tajvani sajtót aggodalommal töltötte el Trump túlságosan üzleties diplomáciája és a fegyvereladási tárgyalások miatt. A tajvani kormány már hónapok óta vár egy 14 milliárd dolláros fegyvercsomagra, amelyet Trump nyíltan alkualapként használ a Pekinggel folytatott tárgyalások során. A feszültséget tovább fokozta, hogy az amerikai nagykövet szerint Trump a találkozón felvetette Hszi Csin-pingnek, nem akar-e Kína amerikai fegyvereket vásárolni. Bár az amerikai diplomaták gyorsan leszögezték, hogy a tajvani politika nem változott, és eszük ágában sincs Kínát fegyverezni, ezek a megnyilvánulások bizonytalanságot szülnek. Ezzel párhuzamosan Tajvan határozottan elutasította a Fehér Ház azon történelmi narratíváját, miszerint Kína az USA szövetségese volt a második világháborúban ezzel emlékeztetve az USA-t, hogy a Kínai Köztársaság harcolt az amerikaiak oldalán, nem pedig a kommunisták.

Amíg Washington és Peking a csúcstalálkozót követően megállapodott egy 60 milliárd dolláros kereskedelmi csomag kölcsönös vámcsökkentéséről (ami kínai háztartási cikkeket és amerikai mezőgazdasági termékeket, például szóját és baromfit érint), az elemzők megnyugtatták Tajpejt, hogy az USA nem fogja háttérbe szorítani Tajvant. Egy amerikai elemző szerint Tajvan a félvezető- és az MI-szervergyártásban betöltött globális szerepe miatt túlságosan értékes az amerikai gazdaság számára ahhoz, hogy az USA feláldozza néhány mezőgazdasági vagy kereskedelmi megállapodásért cserébe. A tajvani és amerikai szakértők szerint a fegyverszállítások jelenlegi késlekedése nem a tajvani támogatás gyengülését jelzi, hanem sokkal inkább az amerikai hadiipar gyártási nehézségeit, valamint a diplomáciai feszültségkezelést szolgálja a kínai-amerikai találkozók idején. Bár Washington hivatalos irányvonala stabil maradt, a tajvani tudósok arra figyelmeztetnek: a szigetországnak folyamatosan résen kell lennie, mivel Donald Trump kiszámíthatatlan, személyes döntéseken és üzleti logikán alapuló megközelítése bármikor váratlan kihívások elé állíthatja a tajvani-amerikai kapcsolatokat.

– Huszár Róbert

A Távol-Kelet hírfigyelő, 2026. szeptember bejegyzés először Biztonságpolitika-én jelent meg.

Media personnel watch a digital screen showing leaders of member states gather for a family photograph during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on 13 September 2026. Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP

By Samuel King and Inés M. Pousadela
BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sep 30 2026 (IPS)

At the 18th BRICS Summit, held on 12 and 13 September in New Delhi, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought together presidents Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir Putin of Russia and Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, along with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed, representing the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Around the table sat longstanding rivals such as India and China and, in the case of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, states on opposite sides of an ongoing war. That the summit produced a joint declaration every member could sign was a modest multilateralist success.

The summit took place against a fast-changing backdrop. With the USA under Donald Trump an unreliable partner and often a hostile power bent on bullying others into submission, numerous states are seeking new alliances as a counterweight. BRICS, whose 11 members account for 49 per cent of the world’s population and 28 per cent of the global economy, could become a more significant forum as a result. But what is on offer is a profoundly old-fashioned, state-centric form of multilateralism, in which the people in whose name states claim to act have little say.

A hollow declaration

At the summit, Xi called for international rules to be ‘written by all countries’, even though he leads a one-party state where increasingly only he writes the rules. Putin urges greater representation for Africa, Asia and Latin America at the UN Security Council, while routinely wielding his veto to stop the council acting on his war in Ukraine.

The New Delhi Declaration’s silences speak loudest. It is explicit on Palestine, calling on Israel to end its war on Gaza and backing a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders. But on the war in Iran, it only urges ‘maximum restraint’ without naming the warring parties, reflecting the fact that Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE sat around the same table. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not mentioned at all, a regression from past declarations and a troubling sign that Putin has no interest in ending the fighting. The text condemns ‘indiscriminate rising tariffs’ and ‘unilateral sanctions’ without naming the USA, sparing the blushes of members such as India, which is reportedly finalising a trade deal with Washington. The declaration preserves consensus at the expense of resolve.

Closed civic space, open defiance

Most BRICS governments have no fear of being held domestically accountable for the compromises they have made. Civic space is closed in seven of BRICS’ 11 states and obstructed or repressed in the rest. Russia jails and exiles opposition voices and has made protest almost impossible. China subjects its people to mass surveillance and crushes any expression that departs from ruling-party lines. Iran violently suppresses protest movements, including through the death penalty. Saudi Arabia and the UAE recognise no legitimate role for independent civil society. Host and self-styled mediator India has seen Modi’s government erode press freedom, restrict civil society funding and stoke hostility towards religious minorities.

Domestic repression translates directly into a closed international forum. After 18 summits, BRICS still has no treaty, no published membership criteria, no permanent secretariat, no budget and no mechanism for civil society to hold its members to account. This is no accident. It leaves powerful leaders free to pursue their interests, and it means civil society has less influence in BRICS than in comparable blocs such as the G20, and much less than in UN processes.

Civil society mobilised regardless. Three weeks before the summit, over 200 delegates from farmers’ organisations, people’s movements, trade unions, women’s organisations and other civil society groups gathered in New Delhi for the People’s BRICS Summit. Its resolution denounced BRICS states for reproducing extractivist, inequitable development models, and insisted that cooperation between global south states be judged by the dignity and rights it delivers to people and communities, not by the freedom it grants states and capital. It called for debt restructuring, a publicly accountable energy transition, food sovereignty, universal social security, women’s political representation and an end to the persecution of civil society activists, and for BRICS to take a clear stand against military intervention, occupation and genocide. BRICS governments chose not to listen.

Ambition without accountability

BRICS’ biggest ambition, on display in the New Delhi Declaration, is to reshape international finance. Development of payment systems independent of the US dollar would chip away at the USA’s unique ability to sustain its power by printing more dollars, despite mountainous debt, to meet unceasing demand. But it would also let repressive states such as Iran and Russia sell oil and gas more easily, funding their repression while blunting international sanctions.

This ambition comes with no commitment to accountability. The bloc has no channel through which the people most affected by its decisions can make their voices heard, and no human rights conditions are attached to its initiatives.

None of the emerging responses to the rapidly changing international order promises to be more democratic than the current system. So far, neither BRICS nor any of the other alternatives now taking shape has matched its growing ambition with greater accountability.

Samuel King is a researcher at CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, working on ENSURED: Shaping Cooperation for a World in Transition, a Horizon Europe-funded project. Inés M. Pousadela is CIVICUS Head of Research and Analysis, co-director and writer for CIVICUS Lens and co-author of the State of Civil Society Report. She is also Professor of Comparative Politics at Universidad ORT Uruguay.

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