By Batseba Seifu* – Modern Diplomacy The deal is aimed at attracting Western investment to a region rich in tantalum, gold, cobalt, copper, lithium and other minerals. On June 27, 2025, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed what has been touted as…
Sachs* – Common Dreams The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of Israel’s extremist government. Gideon Sa’ar Foreign Minister Government of Israel Dear Mr.
Michelle Ellner* & Megan Russell* – Codepink.org A recent article published in The Hill celebrated the revival of the Monroe Doctrine under Donald Trump by suggesting that U.S. pressure is displacing China from Latin America. But this view misreads both the nature…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com Sustainable peace cannot be achieved solely through military means. Israel’s security Cabinet has approved a plan to seize and hold Gaza City, the enclave’s largest urban centre, in what officials describe as a phased expansion of military…
By Jan Mortier* – Article sent to Other News by the author The founding fathers of the European project had a vision, that vision was born in the context of the total devastation of World War II caused to the European continent, the twenty million people killed in the war, the…
Pape* – Foreign Affairs Why Punishing Civilians Has Not Yielded Strategic Success. After nearly 700 days of war, the death toll in Gaza has risen to extraordinary levels.
By Boaventura De Sousa Santos* – Meer The decline of reform, democracy, and international law signals a world on the brink of upheaval. History teaches us that major social transformations have always occurred in the wake of two types of traumatic social upheavals: war and…
By Cullen Hendrix* and Morgan Bazilian* – Modern Diplomacy The confluence of two accelerating trends augurs poorly for critical mineral-rich economies in the Global South: the rise of economic nationalism in advanced economies and the return of territorial conquest as a…
By Claudia Detsch* and Niels Hegewisch* – International Politics and Society (IPS Journal) From trade to climate, EU-China relations are facing a stress test. Yet joint solutions are urgently needed. The leaders of China and the EU had so much going for them when they met to…
By Brian Hudson* – Modern Diplomacy In light of Israel’s repeated violations of international law—including the humanitarian blockade of Gaza, attacks on civilians, and disregard for rulings by international institutions—the question of continuing Europe’s special relationship…
