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Paul Gillespie

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Ireland and the EU need to forge a relationship with the Global South

01.02.2025 10

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Paul Gillespie

How will the contradictions in Trump’s policies play out?

11.01.2025 10

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Paul Gillespie

The world is no longer multipolar - it is ‘multiplex’

The world order is changing. It is battered by a receding globalisation and diminished multilateralism, threatened by climate disaster and...

21.12.2024 5

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Paul Gillespie

Local politicians are overworked, underpaid and unrepresentative

The question of where Irish government happens matters in its delivery to an electorate demanding greater public services and infrastructure to...

30.11.2024 10

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Paul Gillespie

You can’t make America great again if wealth inequalities continue to double and tariffs push up prices

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was...

09.11.2024 10

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Paul Gillespie

Netanyahu’s strategy of calculated risks and provocative escalation distracts from his low politics

“The crisis unfolding in the Middle East is a mix of high strategy and low politics.” This observation by John Sawers, successively foreign policy...

19.10.2024 3

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Paul Gillespie

Rules-based international order is a poor substitute for the vision of the UN’s founders

The “rules-based international order” frames many western states’ preferred model of global multilateral order over the past 15 years. A political...

28.09.2024 3

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Paul Gillespie

There are good reasons for Irish people to pay close attention to what’s happening in Scotland

“Frankly, things will get worse before they get better.” Keir Starmer’s bleak warning to the UK public arises from the belief Labour must blame the...

08.09.2024 2

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Paul Gillespie

Ukraine incursion into Russia could make it easier to talk about peace negotiations

The Ukraine war may have reached a tipping point after the Ukrainians’ surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. If the Ukrainians can hold...

17.08.2024 3

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Paul Gillespie

JD Vance is part of a new generation of aristopopulists seeking regime change

“We are done sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade, and we’re going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label,...

27.07.2024 10

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Paul Gillespie