Information & Communication

MIND WARS: Algorithms or Democracy

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner reportedly met US Ambassador Charles Kushner in Paris to discuss purchasing TikTok Europe, according to Financial Times reporting. The proposal reflects broader efforts by powerful figures to control social media algorithms and shape electoral outcomes globally.

Multilateralism & Unilateralism

Interwar echoes and the risk of great power war

Today’s geopolitical tensions echo the interwar period, with Eastern Europe forming a contested shatterbelt region between rival powers. The article argues that current US-NATO-EU alliances facing Russia and China parallel historical great-power rivalries that preceded both world wars, with Ukraine occupying a pivotal position similar to interwar Poland.

Civil Society

Europe’s hot autumn

Mass youth protests sweep across Europe demanding better education, housing, and economic conditions, rejecting neoliberalism and facing severe police crackdowns. The movements represent working-class resistance to systemic inequality and require broader labor solidarity to challenge the ruling order.

Multilateralism & Unilateralism

The Attraction of the Far Right in Brazil

By Sahasranshu Dash*, Ana Tereza Duarte Lima de Barros** – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) Bolsonarismo lives on despite the incarceration of its leader. If Flávio Bolsonaro wins the presidential run-off in Brazil on October 25, he would extend the region’s run of Trump-aligned…