Okba Mohammad:The Syrian armed conflict is 13 years old, with the various sides backed by regional and international powers such as Iran, Russia, the United States and Israel. Since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, the dynamic has changed and its intensity has [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:“The issues of security and wellbeing are not antithetical but are the two basic pillars of peace, both within and beyond the borders of all states.”Read the full article
Owen Tudor:“Under incredibly difficult circumstances, and frequently at great personal risk, trade unionists have been delivering humanitarian assistance and working to keep the economy, especially vital services, going.”Read the full article
Juan Antonio Sanz:China has displaced Russia as the dominant power in Central Asia. It has done so thanks to its diplomatic and economic might. Russia’s decline highlights the fragility of relations with Central Asia based on Moscow’s military superiority.Read the full article
Cathy Feingold:As players from the US and around the world prepare for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, FIFA must improve its track record of turning a blind eye to authoritarians and ‘sportswashing’ human rights violations.Read the full article
Being an environmental activist in Russia has never been easy. Industrial pollution, environmental degradation and health problems are truths that the Russian government has always tried to hide. Recently, however, the repression of activists has become increasingly [...]Read the full article
Mary Kaldor:The courageous Ukrainian resistance and the anti-war movement in Russia are a civic, not ethnic, reaction to the invasion. And their civic stance has global support.Read the full article
Frank Hoffer:The ILO’s findings not only demand clear action by Belarus to respect international human rights, but they also establish a moral imperative for the international community not to stand idly by.Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:“No sufficiently solid legal framework currently exists to prevent the potential problems that lie ahead, include the possibility of direct violent clashes.”Read the full article
The author of ’Insurgent Mexico’ and ’Ten Days that Shook the World’, Reed provides an invaluable example of committed journalism dedicated to social justice while ensuring truthful reporting, respect for sources and the indispensable need for the journalist to be where the news is [...]Read the full article
Juan Antonio Sanz:Changes to the constitution have strengthened the Russian president’s position but his government faces a growing wave of discontent.Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Sanctions have long had a bad reputation for both failing to achieve results and for causing much more suffering to the vulnerable civilian populations they ostensibly aim to protect than to the political and economic leaders they [...]Read the full article
A new battle – economic and political for the moment – is emerging on one of the most hostile geographical stages on the planet, the Arctic.Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Taking Syria as a point of reference, Russia, Iran, the USA, Israel, Turkey – all the players, regional and global – are moving their pieces on the Middle East chessboard. But does this bode well for the region?Read the full article
In 1990, Transnistria, a narrow strip of land located between the Dniester River and Ukraine, declared its independence from Moldova. No member states of the United Nations have recognised the self-proclaimed republic, leaving its half a million citizens to political [...]Read the full article
Karine Clément:For many Putin supporters seduced by his image as protector of ordinary people, the evidence is now clear: the interests of the working and middle classes count for little compared to those of the economic and financial elites.Read the full article
Russia-EU relations are facing one of their most critical moments in history, strained by Moscow’s interference in EU policy through its intelligence activity and disinformation, and by the economic pressure exerted by the Kremlin to assert its energy strategy over the old [...]Read the full article