News archive 03/2022 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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Reuters

Economy and ecology

The EU’s green banking agenda isn’t sustainable — yet

By ‘greening’ finance, the EU wants to put financial flows at the service of the transition to climate neutrality. But so far its efforts fall short

By Agnieszka Smoleńska

Pixabay

Future of social democracy

Time to decamp from cold-war ideas

Those sections of the left which still think of the world in blocs are guilty of blocked thinking

By Sheri Berman

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Moldova: living at the edge of war

A bloody war is ravaging Ukraine. But its echoes can be heard in neighbouring Moldova as well

By Igor Munteanu

Pixabay

Democracy and society

Condemn the Kremlin’s actions, not the people

The West’s tough line against Russia is justified. But European societies must prevent the ‘othering’ of Russian people and Russian speakers

By Alexey Yusupov

Pexels

Economy and ecology

Who should be responsible for emissions reductions?

Carbon taxes disproportionally hit the poor — both in the Global North and South. Instead, climate policies should tackle the consumption of the rich

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

How Putin underestimated Ukraine

Moscow assumed that Ukrainians would welcome Russian troops with open arms. But that was a big miscalculation — based on what happened in 2014

By Hanna Shelest

Wikimedia

Foreign and security policy

Bulgaria’s soft underbelly

Bulgaria has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yet the country fears NATO intervention in the conflict

By Boris Popivanov

Wikimedia

Interviews

'A political outsider assumes presidential office'

The election of Yoon Suk-Yeol in South Korea will likely deepen the existing social problems in the country reports Henning Effner in Seoul