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Technology, World, Science No Reason to Worry, AI Has Everything Under Control!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly moved from the realm of science fiction to an integral part of our daily lives and to a driving force of technological advancement. Starting from the b...
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UN The UN Charter at 80
Many changes have occurred over the decades since the UN was founded. We need to name these changes, some of which are systemic. For one, many new states were formed through the decolonization...
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World Gaza: Starving the Innocent, Starving the Conscience of Humanity
“Fourteen thousand babies could die in the next 48 hours in Gaza.” – United Nations, May 20, 2025 When I read this line, something ruptured deep inside me. Fourteen thousand babies—not numbers...
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World, What is happening? War Is Not Tit for Tat: A Cry for Humanity
On the morning of 22 April 2025, something inside me broke. In a quiet valley near Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir—a place known for its beauty and serenity—five armed militants opened fire on non...
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Europe, USA, EU Europe’s Strategic Awakening: Why the Era of Dependence is Over
Europe is stirring from a long geopolitical slumber. For decades security was outsourced, mainly to Washington. With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and mounting uncertainty over Amer...
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Europe, Serbia Serbia Rebranded
All roads lead to Strasbourg On 3 April 2025, fifty university students from Novi Sad in Serbia will set off for Strasbourg on bicycles. Having woken up even the smallest places in Serbia, th...
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Technology, World, Science No Reason to Worry, AI Has Everything Under Control!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly moved from the realm of science fiction to an integral part of our daily lives and to a driving force of technological advancement. Starting from the b...
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UN The UN Charter at 80
Many changes have occurred over the decades since the UN was founded. We need to name these changes, some of which are systemic. For one, many new states were formed through the decolonization...
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World Gaza: Starving the Innocent, Starving the Conscience of Humanity
“Fourteen thousand babies could die in the next 48 hours in Gaza.” – United Nations, May 20, 2025 When I read this line, something ruptured deep inside me. Fourteen thousand babies—not numbers...
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World, What is happening? War Is Not Tit for Tat: A Cry for Humanity
On the morning of 22 April 2025, something inside me broke. In a quiet valley near Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir—a place known for its beauty and serenity—five armed militants opened fire on non...
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Europe, USA, EU Europe’s Strategic Awakening: Why the Era of Dependence is Over
Europe is stirring from a long geopolitical slumber. For decades security was outsourced, mainly to Washington. With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and mounting uncertainty over Amer...
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Europe, Serbia Serbia Rebranded
All roads lead to Strasbourg On 3 April 2025, fifty university students from Novi Sad in Serbia will set off for Strasbourg on bicycles. Having woken up even the smallest places in Serbia, th...
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Russia, World, India, China, Foreign Affairs Shanghai Cooperation Organisation – Stronger regional integration or a tool for bigger ...
By Manan Shah
The 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit was held in Tianjin, China from August 31 to September 1, 2025. Coming at a major historical juncture, this summit arguably grabbed the ...
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World, China Curry, Ice Cream, and Diplomacy: How a Small Chinese City Is Serving Up the Shanghai Sp...
By Keyu Guo
As the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) prepares to hold its summit in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, one phrase is back in focus: the “Shanghai Spirit.” This regional bloc was f...
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World, India, Peace & Security Unrealized Freedoms: Reflections on Independence, South Asia, and the Future of Global ...
Two Days, One Question Every August 14th and 15th, two nations—Pakistan and India—mark their Independence Days. In theory, these are moments of celebration. Flags rise, anthems echo, and speec...
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World, Peace & Security The 2025 Alaska Summit: Strategic Dynamics in the U.S.–Russia–China Triangle and the Uk...
Divergent U.S. and Russian Strategies: Assessing the Scope of High-Level Diplomacy The 15 August 2025 Alaska summit between Presidents Trump and Putin highlighted significant differences betwe...
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Climate Change, Peace & Security, Environment Militaries’ expanding remit in climate emergencies: Key findings from a global study
By Ronald Kingham and Ashley MORAN
Growing Climate Pressures The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, floods, and hurricanes, have dramatically surged in recent decades. The World Meteorological...
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World, Environment Iran’s water predicament: national, regional and global dimensions
Iran has often made headlines over the years due to its theocratic governance, its nuclear program, and its longstanding geopolitical tensions with the United States, Israel, and Western power...
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Russia, World, India, China, Foreign Affairs Shanghai Cooperation Organisation – Stronger regional integration or a tool for bigger ...
By Manan Shah
The 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit was held in Tianjin, China from August 31 to September 1, 2025. Coming at a major historical juncture, this summit arguably grabbed the ...
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World, China Curry, Ice Cream, and Diplomacy: How a Small Chinese City Is Serving Up the Shanghai Sp...
By Keyu Guo
As the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) prepares to hold its summit in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, one phrase is back in focus: the “Shanghai Spirit.” This regional bloc was f...
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World, India, Peace & Security Unrealized Freedoms: Reflections on Independence, South Asia, and the Future of Global ...
Two Days, One Question Every August 14th and 15th, two nations—Pakistan and India—mark their Independence Days. In theory, these are moments of celebration. Flags rise, anthems echo, and speec...
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World, Peace & Security The 2025 Alaska Summit: Strategic Dynamics in the U.S.–Russia–China Triangle and the Uk...
Divergent U.S. and Russian Strategies: Assessing the Scope of High-Level Diplomacy The 15 August 2025 Alaska summit between Presidents Trump and Putin highlighted significant differences betwe...
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Climate Change, Peace & Security, Environment Militaries’ expanding remit in climate emergencies: Key findings from a global study
Growing Climate Pressures The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, floods, and hurricanes, have dramatically surged in recent decades. The World Meteorological...
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World, Environment Iran’s water predicament: national, regional and global dimensions
Iran has often made headlines over the years due to its theocratic governance, its nuclear program, and its longstanding geopolitical tensions with the United States, Israel, and Western power...
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Citizen Correspondent Reflections on the Politics of Race and Language in a French Classroom
It was mid-June when the summer heat that had already settled over Paris hadn’t yet reached Normandy, when my coworker invited me to his house to celebrate his birthday. It wasn’t a big event ...
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Citizen Correspondent A European in Brexit Britain
If I had a Euro for every time I’ve heard phrases like “we don’t mean people like you” or “you’ll be fine” or “nothing will change” in relation to Brexit, I would be a very wealthy lady by now...
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The invisible ones: people with disabilities in Latin America
“I feel the pandemic has highlighted the invisibility of people with disabilities,” said the mother of Luigi Gabriel, a 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Throughout history, it has been prov...
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Editorials Gaza: Where the red line is getting thicker and thicker
The situation in Gaza continues to spring up surprises on us, horrible, inhuman, deadly surprises. The latest, after the relentless bombing and killing of tens of thousands of innocent Palesti...
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Editorials Step back now!
It is most worrisome to witness a further step towards the abyss being taken in the Middle East. The rogue regime of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahou continues to play God and to strike on en...
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Op-ed Shared futures fall apart.
The UN, the perma-polycrisis, and our shrinking moral imagination The United Nations, the world’s most ambitious peace project, is once again on the brink of running out of money. But this tim...
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Op-ed What is a Sadistic State and how can it be countered?
A new kind of state is born Reflecting on what is happening in the US since the (second) Trump inauguration on 20 January 2025, people say it is becoming an authoritarian state, a corrupt stat...
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Op-ed It is Easter again…
It is Easter again, among the holiest of holidays on the Christian calendar. And this year the two Easters coincide, that of the Western Churches, Catholic and Protestant that is, with that of...
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Op-ed Demolishing Trade-based Globalization: Not necessarily a bad thing?
On 2 April 2025, newly declared “Liberation Day for America”, President Trump ceremoniously announced the imposition of trade tariffs on virtually all US trade partners, starting with an acros...
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Europe Europe’s Wake-Up Call: Will We Rise or Hit Snooze on History?
“A week is a long time in politics,” as former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously remarked. The first two weeks of March 2025 have felt endless, marked by political shifts, surprise...
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World Cometh the End of History
With all that’s been going on in the world lately, I felt the need to express myself in a manner that is safe, controlled, and organized. While that may sound obvious, it really isn’t, not in ...
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Op-ed 31 days after: An Imperial Mess
20 January 2025 is not just any inauguration day for just any new US President. All initial signs are that Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US President will go down in history as a mom...
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Editorials Gaza: Where the red line is getting thicker and thicker
The situation in Gaza continues to spring up surprises on us, horrible, inhuman, deadly surprises. The latest, after the relentless bombing and killing of tens of thousands of innocent Palesti...
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Editorials Step back now!
It is most worrisome to witness a further step towards the abyss being taken in the Middle East. The rogue regime of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahou continues to play God and to strike on en...
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Op-ed Shared futures fall apart.
The UN, the perma-polycrisis, and our shrinking moral imagination The United Nations, the world’s most ambitious peace project, is once again on the brink of running out of money. But this tim...
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Op-ed What is a Sadistic State and how can it be countered?
A new kind of state is born Reflecting on what is happening in the US since the (second) Trump inauguration on 20 January 2025, people say it is becoming an authoritarian state, a corrupt stat...
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Op-ed It is Easter again…
It is Easter again, among the holiest of holidays on the Christian calendar. And this year the two Easters coincide, that of the Western Churches, Catholic and Protestant that is, with that of...
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Op-ed Demolishing Trade-based Globalization: Not necessarily a bad thing?
On 2 April 2025, newly declared “Liberation Day for America”, President Trump ceremoniously announced the imposition of trade tariffs on virtually all US trade partners, starting with an acros...
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Europe Europe’s Wake-Up Call: Will We Rise or Hit Snooze on History?
“A week is a long time in politics,” as former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously remarked. The first two weeks of March 2025 have felt endless, marked by political shifts, surprise...
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World Cometh the End of History
With all that’s been going on in the world lately, I felt the need to express myself in a manner that is safe, controlled, and organized. While that may sound obvious, it really isn’t, not in ...
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Op-ed 31 days after: An Imperial Mess
20 January 2025 is not just any inauguration day for just any new US President. All initial signs are that Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US President will go down in history as a mom...
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UN75+25: The Pandemic as another Chance for Opening towards Omnilateralism?
Calculations by the London School of Economics show it clearly. If early on Wuhan could have directly informed a truly “global health organisation” and the epidemic thus been restricted to its...
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UN75+25: A history model for a model future
The United Nations (UN) is formed by the so-called Member States that assemble to promote both world peace and world unity. However, despite humanitarian actions to help nations that suffer fr...
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UN75+25: For a future that does not choose economy over life
We are living in dark times because of the pandemic of COVID-19, which has been affecting many structures of society. Many of the social and economic problems, though, are a historical phenome...
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Artist of the Month Zoe Zeniodi: Maestra of music and social cohesion
Zoe Zeniodi is a conductor from Athens, Greece. She has enjoyed a long and successful career in the world of music, initially as a pianist, but mainly as an acclaimed conductor. She has worked...
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