Ten Years of Fortress Europe Has Served Only Cruelty, Profiteers and Racists. The Next Decade Is Up to Us

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…

Stokes* – Article sent to Other News by the author If you want to understand where America thinks it’s heading, you don’t just read its recently published national security strategy for the bullet points. You read it, as it were, against the grain: you look at what it assumes…

By Branko Marcetic* – Responsible Statecraft She isn’t the first to admit — after the fact — that taking NATO off the table to avoid Russian invasion was considered, and dismissed. When it comes to the Ukraine war, there have long been two realities. One is propagated by former…