Germany and Ukraine: avoiding refugee tensions
A potential conflict of national interests over Ukrainian refugees needs to be anticipated and pre-empted.
Politics
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Beyond numbers: securing gender equality in politics
Most focus on women’s political participation has emphasised boosting its supply. But demand is the bigger problem.
The EU and the inevitability of immigration
Climate change and socio-economic trends will make large-scale migrations inevitable in the coming decades.
Israel, Hamas, war crimes and the ICC
The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed on either side of the Israel-Hamas war.
Israel and Hamas: the debasement of discourse
Amid escalating deaths, claims and counter-claims, Robert Misik clears the smoke of self-righteous dissembling.
Rethinking the nation, beyond nativism
Challenging intolerance does involve a political economy of justice. But it must also provide an affective alternative.
The struggle for a just peace in Israel and Palestine
The reignition of the conflict should have surprised no one, had not so many eyes—including in Europe—been averted.
Israel’s evacuation order violates international law
Jane McAdam and Ben Saul
International law places copious constraints on how Israel can order the evacuation of northern Gaza, to protect civilians.
Poland’s historic election: democracy won
With the progressive bloc likely to replace the populists in power, the relics of the latter and a polarised society will remain challenging.
Israel-Palestine: a comparative perspective
An enduring refugee crisis, the conflict is unlike any similar episode from World War II and its aftermath.
Drawing the consequences from the Várhelyi affair
The European commissioner’s announcement of discontinuation of aid to Palestine, though countermanded, was hugely damaging.
‘Trigger points’ and the polarisation entrepreneurs
Progressives, Eszter Kováts writes, need to avoid the trap of a politics which only knows friends and foes.
Elections in Germany: the far right and the firewall
The Christian Democrats must not learn the wrong lessons from two state elections by adopting the rhetoric of the far right.
On the road to (no)where? The SDGs at half-time
In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 but real change demands a green social contract.
Slovakia: could this be Fico’s last hurrah?
The populist’s party topped the poll once more in the elections in Slovakia. Yet green political shoots emerged too.
Nagorno-Karabakh: it’s not over yet
The EU should have seen this crisis coming and deployed sanctions against its 'reliable energy partner'.
Ukraine’s cause: momentum is diminishing
In the Ukraine war, mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies in Europe and the United States hint at growing conflict fatigue.