As a new year begins, we must nurture aspirations for a world in which no one is treated as ‘other’, and refugees and ...

The absence of the president and the first lady shows that Venezuela is not a one-man dictatorship and never has been As ...

Calls for firewalls against the far right overlook a key truth: democracy is defended through debate, not isolation ...

The most unsettling image for a liberal observer is not a tank rolling into a presidential palace; it is the crowd of cheering citizens running alongside it. We create comfortable narratives to ...

Across advanced democracies, economic stagnation and growing geographic divides are no longer just regional or financial concerns — they are political flashpoints, fueling the rise of populist ...

As negotiations resume ahead of COP30, Europe cannot afford to view Africa’s debt and climate crisis as a distant problem. The stakes for both Europe and Africa are high and immediate. The UN ...

Oleksandr Iakymenko is the Ukraine and Moldova Programme Coordinator at Democracy Reporting International. He manages projects related to Ukraine’s legal alignment with the EU, including ...

While working time reductions are very much on the agenda in many European countries, Germany seems to be lagging behind. The Spanish government, for instance, plans a ‘right to disconnect’ and a ...

Daniel Litvin is a visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, and the founder and CEO of Resource Resolutions as well as the author of Empires of ...

Emmanuel Cohen-Hadria is Executive Board member of Diplomeds, a cross-Mediterranean policy group advocating for dialogue and cooperation and facilitating back-channel talks in the region. He co-edited ...

Amin Saikal is a emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University; and Vice Chancellor's Strategic Fellow at Victoria University.

Yaşar Aydın is a researcher at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).