The left needs to hurry lest xenophobia, racism, hate and repression, the four horsemen of the right’s apocalypse, engulf Europe
The “division” between “realists” and R2P is an illusion. Both end up in the same place: confronting our supposed competitors and supporting our allies, regardless of how they treat their people
The obvious winner is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogen and his campaign to transform Turkey from a parliamentary democracy to a powerful, centralized executive with himself in charge
Simple demographics are shifting the balance of economic and political power from Europe and the U.S. to Asia
“Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War and most people…
The xenophobia stems from the anger and despair of people who have been marginalized or left behind by the globalization of the labor force
The Brexit vote was a British affair (and promises to be a messy one). The Spanish election is a continental affair that will have reverberations worldwide.
For the past quarter of a century there have been few watershed moments in Spanish political history. Like a well-choreographed pas de…
On one level, the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff seems like vintage commedia dell’arte: the Lower House speaker who brought the…
Can the EU still unite a continent shattered by world wars, or is it little more than a vehicle for austerity capitalism?
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