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Interviews

‘Indo-Pacific has been the buzzword for the past 5-10 years’

Shafiah Muhibat from Jakarta on Indonesia’s role in the world, the waning influence of ASEAN and foreign interests in the Indo-Pacific region

Reuters

Democracy and society

How Brazil wants to end the war in Ukraine

In a world with growing ‘peace fatigue’, Lula’s peace initiative shows strong frustration with the West and lengthy confrontations full of suffering

By Monica Hirst, Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

Reuters/Bernadett Szabo

Democracy and society

Orbán’s anti-woke pretence

Hungary’s PM is portraying his country's anti-democratic shift as ‘truly conservative’. This strategy seems to resonate with Western intellectuals

By Eszter Kováts

Reuters/Telmo Pinto

Democracy and society

40 years of riots and protests

As long as the process of ghettoisation continues in France, the next police blunder and the subsequent riots are just around the corner

By François Dubet

Pexels

Interviews

‘It is about building trust, and that takes a long time’

Patrik Hermansson on why people vote for the right and how giving a sense of hope and direction could counter this development

BICC/Ruth Vollmer

Democracy and society

When returning home feels like hell

Migrants returning to their country of origin often face precarious situations. Yet, policymakers cling to ineffective but supposedly quick solutions

By Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek, Katja Mielke, Clara Schmitz-Pranghe, Ruth Vollmer

Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library

Foreign and security policy

The OSCE’s midlife crisis

50 years after its foundation, the OSCE has remained a club of non-like-minded states. But as autocracies rise, the organisation might lose relevance

By Cornelius Friesendorf

Reuters/ Alexander Ermochenko

Democracy and society

The biggest game changer in Russian politics

We don’t know what Prigozhin really intended with his mutiny. But he accidentally revived a preoccupation long thought dead in Moscow — real politics

By Alexey Yusupov