Opinion
Keir Starmer has spent more time on foreign policy issues than perhaps any recent UK prime minister during the crucial first 100 days in office. Yet, much of his attention so far has focused on the Middle East and Europe, not least with the wars involving Israel and Ukraine.However, recent days have...
Geopolitics was not widely viewed as a key trigger for the turmoil in international financial markets this month. However, several potential political fissures might yet emerge in 2024, including in the Middle East, bringing greater economic disequilibrium in their wake.Take, for example, the confli...
The G7 was created amid the instability of the 1970s to monitor developments in the world economy. Yet, its role as a geopolitical lynchpin has long been key to a function that has been highlighted at the Italian leadership summit this week.Top of the agenda was Ukraine, where the situation has &ldq...
As the 2024 presidential race heats up, a central paradox is becoming ever clearer: Many voters are growing disenchanted with, and are certainly not enthused, by the two main candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who are 81 and 77 years old, respectively.With a little over six months to go before ...
Vladimir Putin this month secured a new presidential term that means his leadership of Russia could continue until at least 2030. By then, he will have served as leader for a total of 26 years.However, his celebrations were cut short by the horrific attack in Moscow last weekend, which could have ke...
As the clock ticks toward June’s big European Parliament elections across the EU’s 27 member states, politics in Brussels is becoming increasing domestic-focused. However, there has rarely been a time in recent years when so many red lights are flashing outside of the bloc, in what has b...
The 2024 US presidential election increasingly looks likely to be a repeat of the 2020 contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. However, there is one striking difference between these two big US election years: the significantly higher salience of international issues this time around.About 40 pe...
UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously described Russia during the Second World War as a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Yet, fast forward almost a century later and similar sentiments are felt today toward India by many Europeans.The relationship between Europe and...
As Europe enters a big election year, domestic politics in the region are being put on hold ahead of the big ballots ahead. However, much foreign policy activity is still underway with the potential to reshape global politics in the months ahead.Indeed, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukra...
The year 2023 proved to be an important 12 months in terms of global politics and the economy. Yet 2024 could prove to be an even more pivotal year, especially given the important elections in which an estimated 2 billion people in dozens of nations will head to the polls — more, perhaps, than...
With 2024, a big election year for the EU, fast approaching there is much important domestic policy business for the bloc to attend to. However, it was foreign policy that ultimately topped the agenda during the European summit of presidents and prime ministers of the 27 member states in Brussels on...
In the UK, there is a saying about buses that states you usually have to wait for what seems like hours for one to come along, and then two or three come at once.While the UK public transport sector may seem far removed from the high politics and economics of China-European bilateral relations, ther...
The UK was the first large economy in the world to commit to a 2050 goal for reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in legally binding terms. Now, however, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is seeking to reassess how the country gets there.Last week, Sunak called an unscheduled emergency Cabinet meetin...
There has been significant fresh international focus on Northern Ireland in the years following the 2016 Brexit referendum. While much of this has dwelt on the uncertainty surrounding the UK’s departure from the EU, the narrative might now be shifting in a more positive direction, as Northern ...
Global diplomacy in September will be dominated by the G20 leadership event in India on Sept. 9-10. Yet, below that international radar screen are key East Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations summits a few days earlier.While the ASEAN and East Asia events in Indonesia are lower profile t...
For much of the globe, the upcoming election cycle will be dominated by next year’s US presidential and congressional ballots. However, going under the radar is a hugely important ballot in Europe, for which campaigning has now kicked off, that will determine the direction of the 27-member EU....
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak this week unexpectedly decided to grant hundreds of new licenses for oil and gas production in the North Sea. His intention is to open up new fossil fuel energy sources, but he has also ignited a huge political furor about the UK’s net-zero commitments.Turning t...
Each week brings new challenges for Rishi Sunak’s beleaguered UK government, so it is little surprise that it has leapt upon the news that the nation has formally acceded to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership.On the face of it, the deal appears to be a boon for the UK,...
The philosophical roots of modern-day environmentalism can be traced back at least as far as the 19th century, to thinkers such as the US naturalist Henry David Thoreau. It was in North America too that green politics first took significant root, as conservation movements were founded, such as the S...
Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the UK’s EU exit referendum, yet the nation is still widely perceived not to be “making Brexit work.”This is not just the view of what Brexiteers disparagingly call “Remainiacs” (those who wanted to stay in the EU), but also a gr...
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