News archive 11/2017 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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‘We can’t play to the prejudices of people who used to vote for us’

Journalist and writer Paul Mason on how Jeremy Corbyn is reinvigorating Britain’s Left

By Paul Mason

Pixabay / CC0

Global

Six features of the disinformation age

Social media has ushered in a new era of ‘fake news’ and propaganda. We need to get to grips with the digital tools used to propagate disinformation

By Kelly Born

EPA

Europe

Throw angst to the wind

Five good reasons for a minority government in Germany

By Paul Hockenos

EPA

Africa

China as a role model?

How pragmatism is replacing values in Africa-EU relations

By Florian Koch

European Union 2017 - Source: EP

They don't care about us!

Ethnic minorities are under-represented in the European Parliament

And that’s a travesty of democracy

By Neena Gill

EPA

Middle East

A wary return to Raqqa

The Syrian city of Raqqa is free from ISIS’ grip at last. But a former resident fears it has merely passed from one set of hands to another

By Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Flickr/PES Communications: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Europe

For Greece’s centre-left, Pasok redux won’t do

Newly elected Fofi Gennimata faces the monumental task of forming a movement to give Greece’s social democratic forces a common purpose

By Nick Malkoutzis

EPA

Global

Power struggle

Amid mounting allegations of sexual misconduct in Westminster, it's high time for a cultural shift

By Rainbow Murray

EPA

Economy and ecology

Better together

Encouraging progress at the COP23 climate summit in Bonn can only be sustained through continued global efforts

By Manuela Mattheß

EPA

Europe

Where now for Germany?

With government negotiations collapsing, Germany and Angela Merkel are suddenly no longer looking so stable

By Klaus Larres