News archive 2/2021 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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Reuters

Future of social democracy

What we learned from the 2021 Catalan elections

Amid a resurgence of the Socialists, pro-independence parties maintained their majority in the Catalan parliament

By Jonathan Parker

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

We need raw material diplomacy, not conflict

Trade in valuable minerals often fuels violent conflicts. The EU's new approach to raw material diplomacy could change that

By Günther Maihold

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

How we can reach transatlantic agreement on Nord Stream 2

The dispute about gas imports from the east is neither new nor insoluble. The new US Secretary of State Blinken already mapped out a solution in 1987

By Nils Schmid

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Why are Republicans still this loyal to a Mar-a-Lago Exile?

Republicans need to talk about the country’s needs, not just the threats posed by the left. That requires disowning Trump

By Peter Wehner

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Who represents the British working class?

At the last UK election, many 'red wall' Labour seats went to the Tories. But the new Conservative coalition is more volatile than it may seem

By Paula Surridge

Reuters

Democracy and society

Lukashenko’s fake exercise in democracy

After the ‘All-Belarusian People’s Assembly’ serious reform remains unlikely. But the democracy movement won’t disappear

By Christopher Forst

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Why such an imperfect union?

US political dysfunctionality is often put down to partisanship and polarisation. But that ignores the actual issues at stake

By Sheri Berman

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Global vaccination IV

Global vaccine fatigue is talking hold — before vaccinations have even started. Dispatches from Hungary, Senegal and Japan

By Beate Martin, Thomas Mättig, Sven Saaler