News archive 08/2019 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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‘Not playing off the working class against women and migrants’

The working class has migrant background, it’s female, it’s as gay and lesbian as the rest of society, argues Tarik Abou-Chadi

By Tarik Abou-Chadi

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Au revoir, my friends!

Macron is no longer automatically siding with Germany in European politics – and with good reason

By Sophie Pornschlegel

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Mogherini's legacy

Federica Mogherini has remained a pale figure as the EU's chief diplomat over the years. So what can we expect next?

By Jana Puglierin

Reuters

'Central Asia has always been important for Europe'

The influence of political heavyweights China and Russia in Central Asia grows. Peter Burian on Europe's role in the region

By Peter Burian

Reuters

The global footprint of right-wing populists

The triumph of the right is changing the world order. And Bolsonaro's Brazil is at the forefront of it all

By Katharina Hofmann De Moura

Reuters

Salvini's miscalculation

Matteo Salvini played with fire — and burned himself. Now, Italy could see a new coalition of old enemies

By Tobias Mörschel

Reuters

Make America and China poor again

The character of US-China trade has changed and both Xi and Trump overplayed their hands to freak each other out

By Thomas L. Friedman

Reuters

European negligence in the Balkans

Brussels risks facing stiff political competition from Moscow and Russian efforts to undermine the European values in region

By Bojan Stojkovski

Reuters

The IMF’s latest victims

The International Monetary Fund’s bizarre belief in ‘expansionary austerity’ would be laughable if it were not so damaging

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

The Epstein suicide conspiracies

Each news cycle shows how our information system is poisoned

By Charlie Warzel