Tech offers socialism from above: they own the machines, we get allowances. We need democracy from below, not just AI wealth, ...

Years of war in Ukraine have shifted global power away from the West. This may not yet represent a defeat, but it is ...

Trump’s bid for Greenland breaks the post-war consensus. If Europe wants to stand up to the US president, it must finally ...

Noreena Hertz is an honorary professor at the UCL Policy Lab, where she leads research on AI. Iran’s protests show a regime trapped between anger at home and paralysis at the top ...

Once again, the people of Iran are protesting, calling for an end to the Islamic Republic. And with good reason: decades of ...

Ukraine’s top power shift signals deep securitisation and a careful balancing of rivals as the war enters a volatile phase ...

As a new year begins, we must nurture aspirations for a world in which no one is treated as ‘other’, and refugees and ...

The absence of the president and the first lady shows that Venezuela is not a one-man dictatorship and never has been ...

Calls for firewalls against the far right overlook a key truth: democracy is defended through debate, not isolation ...

Marcus Schneider heads the FES regional project for peace and security in the Middle East, based in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he worked for the FES as head of the offices in Botswana and Madagascar ...

With the disappointment of the 2023 counteroffensive and the shift to a brutal attritional war, the mood has darkened in the pro-Ukrainian information space. The West’s dramatic isolation over the ...

The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only ...