News archive 4/2023 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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Reuters/Luis Cortes

Democracy and society

Mexico’s authoritarian restoration

President López Obrador is planning to re-centralise power. To achieve this, he wants to put a leash on Mexico's independent electoral institute

By Sandra Weiss

Pexels

Democracy and society

The myth of meritocracy and the populist threat

Liberals love the idea of meritocracy. But while it promises equality of opportunity, it cannot create equality of condition

By Lisa Pelling

Reuters/ Johanna Geron

Interviews

'Finnish politics has experienced an enormous shift to the right'

Kristina Birke Daniels on Sanna Marin’s electoral loss and the difficulty of forming a government in Finland

Reuters/ Marko Savala

Foreign and security policy

A geopolitical game-changer

Finland and Sweden’s NATO accession will fill an existing gap – a ‘blind spot’ – in the organisation's defence planning for its eastern territory

By Lukas Hassebrauck

SPÖ Presse und Kommunikation (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Future of social democracy

The good man from Traiskirchen

The leadership dispute among the Austrian Social Democrats is escalating. Andreas Babler, a successful small-town mayor, might profit from this

By Robert Misik

Reuters/ Mohamed Azakir

Foreign and security policy

Political settlement first, refugee return second

Europe’s current approach to facilitating refugee returns and containing new arrivals from Syria is based on wishful thinking

By Malik al-Abdeh, Lars Hauch

Reuters/ Matan Golan

Democracy and society

A private militia for an arsonist

Israel's Security Minister Ben-Gvir, known for his radicalism, wants to establish a police force that follows his orders blindly

By Peter Lintl