The World after the West: Nasser Hadian on Iran
Iran plays a key role in the global order. The leadership in Tehran asserts Iran’s role in the Middle East through the backing of allied groups, most notably Hizbullah in Lebanon. Meanwhile, on the gl...
28 Jun 202436min
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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 202432min
