News archive 09/2023 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Perpetuating the cycle of violence

After Azerbaijan's latest offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, the South Caucasus will likely see further escalations and suffering for decades to come

By Benyamin Poghosyan

Nazly Ahmed (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Economy and ecology

Sri Lanka’s dangerous domestic debt restructuring

The IMF's bailout plan for Sri Lanka is likely to exacerbate the country's economic crisis and put further strain on already vulnerable workers

By Jayati Ghosh, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

© Europäische Union, 2023

Democracy and society

The hope of the Dutch left

Frans Timmermans is running for Dutch prime minister. Can the former vice-president of the EU Commission lead his left-wing alliance to victory?

By Simon Pieter Otjes

Reuters/Mehdi Chebil

Democracy and society

Democracy to the rescue

Politics might be broken, but it’s certainly not irreparable — and democracy has the tools to fix it

By Carly Walker-Dawson

Reuters/Jon Nazca

Economy and ecology

Green hydrogen – bringing Europe and Latin America closer together?

The EU can support LAC countries in developing a renewable hydrogen industry – but it must do so in a fair and economically sustainable way

By Ignacio Urbasos

Pexels/Mark Stebnicki

Work and digitalisation

All work and low pay — Europe’s migrant workforce

Despite Europe's extensive labour shortage, it seems incapable of improving the poor working conditions that migrant workers find themselves in

By Ankita Anand

Reuters

Democracy and society

A fight out of the tentacles of the crime kraken

Latin America is under the control of drug cartels. With a new strategy, the continent wants to free itself from the stranglehold of the mafia

By Sandra Weiss

Canva

Foreign and security policy

A new line of geopolitical division

The most dangerous times come when the gap between the old hegemon and the new challenger shrinks. Then, the old rules of the game no longer apply

By Nickolay Kapitonenko