News archive 3/2025 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

Header

picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Susan Walsh

Foreign and security policy

Has Russia now achieved its goal?

Moscow wants more than mediation — it wants recognition

By Alexey Yusupov

picture alliance / Anadolu | Adri Salido

Democracy and society

What a spectacle!

Portugal’s government has collapsed over a scandal, new elections are due — will the country shift to the right or can the Socialists return to power?

By Fabian Schmiedel

picture alliance / CHROMORANGE | Christian Ohde

Economy and ecology

When friends become enemies

Trump’s tariff war is causing economic and political turmoil in neighbouring Canada. How is this affecting the election campaign?

By Jordan Leichnitz

Canva

Economy and ecology

Standing tall as the winds howl

Not the right of the strong, but the strength of the law must prevail in the political arena – this applies particularly to trade policy

By Daniela Iller, Yvonne Bartmann

picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Andy Wong

Interviews

'Prepared for any kind of war’

Sergio Grassi, from Beijing, on the Chinese National People’s Congress, the trade conflict with the US and rising defense spending

picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Evgeniy Maloletka

Democracy and society

The financial well is empty — who pours next

With USAID gone, can local initiatives in Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova stay afloat?

By Karen Madoian

Pexels

Work and digitalisation

Trolls of the state

Iran’s government doesn’t just censor — it funds hate speech

By Kourosh Ziabari

picture-alliance/ dpa | S._Sabawoon

Democracy and society

Let Afghan women lead

Progress on women’s rights and representation is stalling. And the prospects for improvement appear bleak

By Palwasha Hassan, Shafiqa Khpalwak