Dialogue Six months of war against Iran
Six months have passed since the war against Iran began. Two explicit campaigns have been launched by United States. The first, lasting twelve days, was fought to destroy the nuclear programme...
By Global South Perspectives Network
Six months have passed since the war against Iran began. Two explicit campaigns have been launched by United States. The first, lasting twelve days, was fought to destroy the nuclear programme...
State of the world: many not-so-beautiful games The FIFA World Cup ended on 19 July with an apotheosis of the Spanish national team and a resounding boo for US President Trump. Whether one agr...
By Global South Perspectives Network
The international community has become preoccupied with reforming its institutions. We debate the future of the United Nations Security Council, the composition of the G20, the legitimacy of i...
By Global South Perspectives Network
The process is underway to choose the new UN Secretary-General. Candidates have been declared and hearings held. With Security Council deliberations pending, the situation is revealing of the ...
By Global South Perspectives Network
The debate over China’s Global Governance Initiative (GGI) arrives at a moment when questions surrounding global governance are becoming increasingly difficult to avoid. Institutions establish...
In my long (40 years), undistinguished career in marketing communications and journalism, I have had a chance to work with some very good and some not very good bosses. However, there was one ...
By Global South Perspectives Network
Six months have passed since the war against Iran began. Two explicit campaigns have been launched by United States. The first, lasting twelve days, was fought to destroy the nuclear programme...
State of the world: many not-so-beautiful games The FIFA World Cup ended on 19 July with an apotheosis of the Spanish national team and a resounding boo for US President Trump. Whether one agr...
By Global South Perspectives Network
The international community has become preoccupied with reforming its institutions. We debate the future of the United Nations Security Council, the composition of the G20, the legitimacy of i...
By Global South Perspectives Network
The process is underway to choose the new UN Secretary-General. Candidates have been declared and hearings held. With Security Council deliberations pending, the situation is revealing of the ...
By Global South Perspectives Network
The debate over China’s Global Governance Initiative (GGI) arrives at a moment when questions surrounding global governance are becoming increasingly difficult to avoid. Institutions establish...
In my long (40 years), undistinguished career in marketing communications and journalism, I have had a chance to work with some very good and some not very good bosses. However, there was one ...
By Reza Talebi
On Sunday, 26 July 2026, Abbas Araghchi made a statement that read less like a protest than a strategic admission. Responding to a Ukrainian drone strike on an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Se...
By Luigi Capoani and Enrico Volonterio
The strategic rivalry between the United States and China is reshaping the post-Cold War international order, with consequences for trade, technology, finance and security. Europe is deeply af...
When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited India as a country offering ‘tremendous support’ to Israel on a global news platform in July 2026, New Delhi was not consulted. Instead, I...
The Question That Stayed With Me Several years ago, I attended a dinner party, shrimp cocktail, chicken Kiev, and carrot cake, if memory serves. While chatting with the guests about this and t...
The international order is changing before our eyes. Great-power rivalry is once again dominating global politics. Strategic competition increasingly overshadows cooperation. International law...
According to a report presented in 2024 by the former head of the European Central Bank and minister-of-all-trades in Italy, Mario Draghi, the EU Member States and the EU institutions need to ...
By Reza Talebi
On Sunday, 26 July 2026, Abbas Araghchi made a statement that read less like a protest than a strategic admission. Responding to a Ukrainian drone strike on an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Se...
The strategic rivalry between the United States and China is reshaping the post-Cold War international order, with consequences for trade, technology, finance and security. Europe is deeply af...
When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited India as a country offering ‘tremendous support’ to Israel on a global news platform in July 2026, New Delhi was not consulted. Instead, I...
The Question That Stayed With Me Several years ago, I attended a dinner party, shrimp cocktail, chicken Kiev, and carrot cake, if memory serves. While chatting with the guests about this and t...
The international order is changing before our eyes. Great-power rivalry is once again dominating global politics. Strategic competition increasingly overshadows cooperation. International law...
According to a report presented in 2024 by the former head of the European Central Bank and minister-of-all-trades in Italy, Mario Draghi, the EU Member States and the EU institutions need to ...
How the nuclear issue has been manipulated for geopolitical objectives In 1968, Iran signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which seeks to prevent the proliferation of atomic wea...
Obscured from view by the Iran War and the generalized turmoil it has caused, with Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza and other hotspots also competing for the limelight, a major step is about to be taken f...
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 ...
Dialogue can reduce the risk of miscalculation, but Washington and Beijing are building rival AI ecosystems that will increasingly force other countries to make practical choices. President Do...
In last Sunday’s mass, I heard a Christian priest declare during Mass that “this planet is useless, transitory” and that we should therefore focus on the heavens and the “next life.” Believer ...
By Georgios Kostakos and Daryl Swanepoel and Cilene Victor
Greenland has long been perceived as a remote and tranquil part of the world, a place where geopolitical storms rarely reach. Yet recent years have shown that even the Arctic’s icy expanses ar...
The United Nations Security Council was designed to stop the world’s worst fires. Too often, it has become the arsonist’s best friend. From Rwanda to Syria to Ukraine, the Council’s five perma...
In recent days, a long-simmering dispute between US President Donald Trump and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has exploded, with Mr. Trump threatening to sue the BBC for 1 to 5 bil...
By Georgios Kostakos and Daryl Swanepoel
When 414 of Europe’s most experienced former diplomats, ministers and senior officials speak with one voice, the world ought to listen, and more than the world the EU institutions themselves. ...
Even without having been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, US President Donald Trump was impressively upbeat in his whirlwind trip to Israel and Egypt on 13 October 2025. He spoke extensi...
As customary, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) is opening its new regular session in the second half of September. World leaders are converging on New York for their High-leve...
The United Nations turns 80 at a moment when its relevance is under sharper question than at any point since its founding. Conceived in the ashes of global war, the UN was meant to embody coll...
Dialogue can reduce the risk of miscalculation, but Washington and Beijing are building rival AI ecosystems that will increasingly force other countries to make practical choices. President Do...
In last Sunday’s mass, I heard a Christian priest declare during Mass that “this planet is useless, transitory” and that we should therefore focus on the heavens and the “next life.” Believer ...
Greenland has long been perceived as a remote and tranquil part of the world, a place where geopolitical storms rarely reach. Yet recent years have shown that even the Arctic’s icy expanses ar...
The United Nations Security Council was designed to stop the world’s worst fires. Too often, it has become the arsonist’s best friend. From Rwanda to Syria to Ukraine, the Council’s five perma...
In recent days, a long-simmering dispute between US President Donald Trump and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has exploded, with Mr. Trump threatening to sue the BBC for 1 to 5 bil...
When 414 of Europe’s most experienced former diplomats, ministers and senior officials speak with one voice, the world ought to listen, and more than the world the EU institutions themselves. ...
Even without having been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, US President Donald Trump was impressively upbeat in his whirlwind trip to Israel and Egypt on 13 October 2025. He spoke extensi...
As customary, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) is opening its new regular session in the second half of September. World leaders are converging on New York for their High-leve...
The United Nations turns 80 at a moment when its relevance is under sharper question than at any point since its founding. Conceived in the ashes of global war, the UN was meant to embody coll...
Dialogue can reduce the risk of miscalculation, but Washington and Beijing are building rival AI ecosystems that will increasingly force other countries to make practical choices. President Do...
In last Sunday’s mass, I heard a Christian priest declare during Mass that “this planet is useless, transitory” and that we should therefore focus on the heavens and the “next life.” Believer ...
By Georgios Kostakos and Daryl Swanepoel and Cilene Victor
Greenland has long been perceived as a remote and tranquil part of the world, a place where geopolitical storms rarely reach. Yet recent years have shown that even the Arctic’s icy expanses ar...
Public debt is often discussed in technical terms, yet its consequences shape everyday life, affecting public services, economic opportunity and trust between citizens and government. When deb...
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