News archive 04/2024 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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picture alliance / NurPhoto | Subaas Shrestha

Foreign and security policy

Nepal's youth caught in the crossfire

The Nepalese government is under pressure to halt the flow of recruits to the Russian army

By Kamal Dev Bhattarai

picture alliance / Ikon Images/Maxim Usik | Maxim Usik

Democracy and society

Is the world getting out of control?

The EU won’t regain its sex appeal through patronising speeches and paternalistic funds. The best way to promote democracy is to act by example

By Jan Zielonka

picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Zurab Tsertsvadze

European integration

A trailblazer on the wrong track

Is Georgia's leadership risking a break with Europe - and its own people?

By Marcel Röthig

picture alliance / abaca | Charles Guerin

Future of social democracy

Let them eat cake!

Billionaires shouldn't pay less tax in relative terms than the working class — this is a no-brainer, a political head-nodding issue par excellence

By Sarah Ganter

picture-alliance/ dpa | Dirk Waem

European integration

'Perhaps there would be no war today'

Former EU Commissioner Günter Verheugen on the EU's eastward enlargement, mistakes and a possible accession of Ukraine

By Günter Verheugen

picture alliance / Zoonar | Andrii Yalanskyi

Economy and ecology

Nonsense and bad rules persist in banking

Political forces and misinformation continue to distort policy decisions on new and improved banking regulations — at a high cost to society

By Anat R. Admati

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European integration

Towards fair European economies

A revision of the EU’s public procurement framework is needed to reflect the interests of the citizens not companies that undermine European policies

By Dennis Radtke, Agnes Jongerius, Sara Matthieu, Nikolaj Villumsen

picture alliance/dpa/TASS | Mikhail Metzel

Foreign and security policy

Peacemaker wanted

Kazakhstan maintains good relations with Russia and Ukraine. The country would be perfectly suited to mediate negotiations and end bloodshed

By Alexandra Sitenko