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Global South is demanding changes to world power structures

Three international summits in a row illustrate the changing patterns of world power and the forces driving them. Demands for more equality from a...

16.09.2023 20

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Most severe effects of the climate crisis have been hidden in the ocean’s depths

Oceans make up 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface. They have absorbed 90 per cent of the global warming imbalance and 25 per cent of the responsible...

26.08.2023 40

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Lessons from Northern Ireland could point the way to talks on Ukraine

Former senior United States officials have reportedly been talking to Russian government ministers about creating a negotiating framework for talks on...

05.08.2023 8

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World View: Ireland’s neutrality is not a religion. It is much more flexible than that

A highlight of the recent Government-organised Consultative Forum on International Security Policy was a statement by the Swiss academic Professor...

15.07.2023 10

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Michael Viney used to say Atlantic storms had no menace in them. They do now

“The first true subversion since Marx.” So the late Michael Viney described the new ecological thinking in his first Another Life column from...

24.06.2023 8

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Worldview: Fresh evidence and perspectives on Irish neutrality are sorely needed

Where now for Irish neutrality? Must it gradually disappear into European Union security structures dominated increasingly by the United States and...

10.06.2023 9

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An appetite for a world without a hegemon is emerging

The fragmenting world order was visible at the Group of Seven (G7) summit of rich democracies in Hiroshima last weekend. It was attended by leaders...

27.05.2023 10

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Ireland is one of the EU’s most successful case studies

Framing perspectives matter greatly in contextualising political identities and positioning political actors. Ireland’s 50 years in the EU and its...

13.05.2023 60

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Paul Gillespie: False notion of the West traces a line from Plato to Nato

In times of rapid change we struggle to find a vocabulary and ideas to express it. These often take an ideological form that distorts and obscures...

29.04.2023 6

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Four reasons why the online world will never make everyone an author

“Just as printing made everyone a potential reader, today, digitalisation is making everyone into a potential author. But how long did it take until...

15.04.2023 10

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