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Paul GillespieThe Irish Times |
“The crisis unfolding in the Middle East is a mix of high strategy and low politics.” This observation by John Sawers, successively foreign policy...
The “rules-based international order” frames many western states’ preferred model of global multilateral order over the past 15 years. A...
“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 Ukraine war may have reached a tipping point after the Ukrainians’ surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. If the Ukrainians can hold...
“We are done sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade, and we’re going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label,...
Far-right political victories and prospective governments in Europe and the United States are stimulating a search for historical precedents and...
English nationalism is resurrected by Nigel Farage’s return to the electoral fray as head of the Reform party in the British general election. Yet...
Interpreting central and eastern Europe to western Europeans is a necessary but difficult or even thankless task during Russia’s imperial...
“China and the United States should be partners rather than rivals; help each other succeed rather than hurt each other; seek common ground and...
Local elections take place in the 31 local authority areas of this State on June 7th, along with European Parliament elections and the first vote for...
Dysfunctional is a term widely used to describe Britain and the UK’s political union in the terminal months of this Conservative government. Hopes...
Amid escalating Russian missile attacks and Ukrainian defensive resistance, preoccupations in Europe are about how to channel more weaponry and...
The long-standing strategic aspect of British policy towards Ireland is resurrected in a paper from the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange in...
The spectre of a Trump victory in November’s US presidential elections is haunting European Union and Nato policymakers in Brussels. Donald Trump is...
It has been a good year for the Global South. The term refers variously to the world’s poorer and more marginalised states; to their cross-state,...
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a...