By Pavel Devyatkin* – Responsible Statecraft The Venezuela ‘take over’ is causing anxiety, but Trump should know that alienating Copenhagen would actually undermine US security. The Trump administration dramatically escalated its campaign to control Greenland in 2025.
Sachs* – Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) / Horizons Magazine Winter 2026 (forthcoming) Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections have proven profoundly…
By Maurice Stierl* – The Guardian The hard right and far right are the political winners from the migration ‘crisis’, but only because centrist parties keep legitimising them. For a decade, Europe has remained suspended in a perpetual state of migration crisis.
By Chris Hedges* – Consortium News Israel’s extensive and blatant flouting of international agreements and law presage a world where the law is whatever the most militarily advanced countries say it is. First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself.
By Peiman Salehi* – The Cradle As Washington’s sanctions model collapses, its desperate measures reveal not strength but a system in decline. The recent escalation in US–Venezuela tensions is often framed narrowly in tactical terms: the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, new…
By Conor Gallagher – Naked Capitalism German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week decried the end of Pax Americana and declared that Germany will fill the void: “The decades of Pax Americana for Europe and Germany are largely over for us. It no longer exists as we knew it.
By Nic Cheeseman*, Matías Bianchi*, and Jennifer Cyr* – Foreign Affairs Authoritarian Cooperation Is Reshaping the Global Order. During the interwar years, support for revolutionary, anticapitalist parties by the Soviet-led Communist International laid the groundwork for the…
Sachs* – Berliner Zeitung* In an open letter, the author tells the German chancellor that peace in Ukraine cannot be achieved by pretending that Russia’s security concerns do not exist. Chancellor Merz, You have spoken repeatedly of Germany’s responsibility for European security.
By Abdul Rahman – Peoples Dispatch Rising inequality is reinforced by the global financial system, which privileges the wealthier countries and compels the poorer nations to transfer a substantial part of their national income to them. Neoliberal free-market economic policies…
By Pham Quang Hien* – Modern Diplomacy The concept of a “Global South” has made a prominent comeback in strategic discussions since the COVID-19 pandemic and especially after the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The concept of a “Global South” has made a prominent comeback in strategic…
