News archive 09/2020 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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Reuters

Future of social democracy

The ‘bazooka’: Modern Monetary Theory in action

Large-scale injections of money to bring economies out of the coronavirus coma have vindicated Modern Monetary Theory

By Peter Bofinger

Pexels

Interviews

'Decolonisation is also a movement of money'

Vanessa Ogle on the link between decolonisation and the expansion of tax havens — and the problems it creates today

Reuters

Democracy and society

Moria: a catastrophe by design

Years of malign neglect by Greek and EU authorities didn't just create an inhumane present — it also sows the seeds of a toxic future

By Nick Malkoutzis

Reuters

Interviews

'The potential of mutual destruction has grown massively'

Armenia and Azerbaijan are in a state of war. Felix Hett on the violent clashes over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region

Wikimedia/Victorgrigas

Foreign and security policy

Debt relief? Thanks, but no thanks!

Developing countries have been hit particularly hard by the effects of the pandemic. So why have some rejected debt relief?

By Jürgen Kaiser, Elise Kopper

Reuters

European integration

New pact, old problems

The EU's new migration pact doesn't offer a truly novel approach. Nevertheless, it is certainly better than the status quo

By Marco Funk

Jacques Paquier/Wikimedia

Future of social democracy

Can Macron's 'France Relance' rebuild the country?

France’s unprecedented recovery plans are ambitious on industry and enviroment but risk to widen the social divide

By Thomas Manz

Pexels

Future of social democracy

Social democracy in one corner of the world

The belief that progressive politics today can recreate the benign conditions for post-war social democracy is a mirage

By Branko Milanović

Foreign and security policy

The Eastern Mediterranean quagmire

The conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean is less about hydrocarbons than the future of the EU-Turkey relationship

By Harry Tzimitras

Pixabay

Global

The coming global technology fracture

Today's international trade regime was not designed for a world of data, software and AI. It needs drastic change

By Dani Rodrik