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picture alliance / Xinhua News Agency | Chen Junqing

Foreign and security policy

Pressure on an atomic level

Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah and Hamas weaken Iran. The country’s will to cross the nuclear threshold is growing

By Ruslan Suleymanov

picture alliance / Reuters | Afolabi Sotunde

Economy and ecology

Green fields, empty coffers

As COP29 nears, global climate negotiators have an opportunity to address a critical oversight: the neglect of food security and agricultural finance

By Kamo Sende

picture alliance / abaca | Middle East Images

Foreign and security policy

Call it by its name

There is a quiet political conflict over the name of a key waterway — the Persian Gulf

By Kourosh Ziabari

Pexels

Future of social democracy

But there is a country for old men

Some elderly people struggle to live a dignified life in the EU, but overall young people are worse off

By Jan Zielonka

picture alliance / Reuters | Brian Snyder

Interviews

‘Not all change is good’

Democratic polling strategist Celinda Lake on the upcoming US elections, contested voter blocs, and different voting patterns of men and women

picture alliance / ZUMAPRESS.com | Volha Shukaila

Foreign and security policy

A flower left to wilt

If the rest of Europe truly wants to support democratic movements in Belarus, it needs to stop seeing the country and its people as a problem

By Andrey Dzmitryeu

picture alliance / Associated Press | Andres Martinez Casares

Democracy and society

Fiji deserves better

Many Pacific states take their cue from Fiji. The country’s renewed authoritarian drift could thus threaten the stability of the entire region

By Oliver Hasenkamp

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Democracy and society

Austria’s elephant in the room

What lessons can be learnt from the recent Austrian elections? One issue, in particular, has taken centre stage

By Eszter Kováts