News archive 09/2021 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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Economy and ecology

What Evergrande signals about China's economic future

Under Xi Jinping's new economic agenda 'common prosperity', China is cracking down on indebted real estate developers like Evergrande

By Alicia Herrero

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

The price of American hegemony in Asia

With AUKUS, the US gets serious about containing China. But Australia and Europe should ask themselves if US primacy in Asia is a worthwhile goal

By Sam Roggeveen

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Foreign and security policy

How the world looks at the German elections

China looks to Germany for its influence in Europe, South Africa hopes for continuity, and Russia doesn't think bilateral relations will improve now

By Alexander Kallweit, Uta Dirksen, Peer Teschendorf

Reuters

Future of social democracy

What does Germany want?

Germany's coalition talks will be tricky. And so remains accepting its role as a leading global actor, writes former US diplomat John Kornblum

By John Kornblum

Reuters

Interviews

'The red wave is here!'

Iratxe García Pérez, leader of the Social Democrats in the European Parliament, on what the SPD's victory in the German elections means for Europe

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Yes, peace missions can work

Mali is not Afghanistan. We must be careful not to draw conclusion from the Hindu Kush for every other international peace mission

By Annika S. Hansen, Tobias von Gienanth

Reuters

Democracy and society

Views from abroad: the German elections

The upcoming German elections are perhaps the most hotly contested in over a decade. But how are they perceived in Warsaw, Paris, and Kyiv?

By Ernst Hillebrand, Thomas Manz

Reuters

Economy and ecology

We must resist corporate greenwashing

Agricultural land has become a prized investment for corporations to greenwash their operations — at the risk of exacerbating hunger worldwide

By Astrud Beringer