The World After the West: Ayşe Zarakol on Turkey
A growth in membership to organisations such as BRICS+, the New Development Bank, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation demonstrates the continued rise of ‘middle powers’ – countries which belong ...
21 Kesä 202426min
Europe is shifting: EU election results could divide Europe
The results of the European Parliament elections show varying trends across the EU. As predicted by experts in the build-up, Europe’s far-right parties made substantial gains– most notably in France, ...
14 Kesä 202437min
NATO and beyond: America’s domestic politics and Ukraine
How is America’s domestic politics impacting the war in Ukraine? Last week, the Biden administration authorised Ukraine to use US-supplied weapons to strike within Russia’s borders – but, beyond July’...
7 Kesä 202432min
The Great Firewall: How China regulates big tech
In the past couple of decades, China has produced a multitude of big tech giants. Companies like Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and others are well on their way to becoming household names, unique in the...
31 Touko 202429min
Algorithmic agendas: The globalisation of political technology
Political technology, or the professional engineering of politics, has been endemic to Russia since the Soviet era. But these practices have now spread across the globe – with manipulation occurring i...
24 Touko 202430min
The sweet spot: Between de-risking from China and Europe’s green future
A key priority for both the European Union and the United States is to reduce dependencies on China in green industries. Only this week, the United States announced a ramping up of tariffs on Chinese-...
17 Touko 202425min
A vision for the future: Adapting Europe’s single market
When Europe’s single market was first conceived in the 1980s, the number of member states was half of what it is today, the Soviet Union still existed, Germany was not yet reunified, and the Chinese a...
10 Touko 202432min
The European pulse: the election and beyond
With the European Parliament election only one month away, there is feverish speculation about who will get the top jobs of Commission President, President of the Council, and High Representative of t...
3 Touko 202434min
