News archive 09/2026 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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picture alliance / SvenSimon | Malte Ossowski

Economy and ecology

Europe has an investment problem

Decades of underinvestment and regional disparities have left Europe divided. What is needed is a continent-wide investment strategy

By David Harrison

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European integration

An autumn of enlargement

New partnerships, such as the emerging one with Canada, should complement, not delay, EU enlargement

By Marco Schwarz

picture alliance / Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP

Economy and ecology

Europe, eh?

The EU cannot replace Canada’s largest trading partner. But it could give Ottawa something increasingly valuable: options beyond the US market

By Surjit Singh Flora

picture alliance / AP Photo | Ahn Young-joon

Foreign and security policy

Living with the bomb

North Korea is nuclear-armed. Seoul is adapting: freeze first, disarmament later. But realism comes with risks

By Christoph Heuser

pa / Keystone | Urs Flueeler

Foreign and security policy

What does neutrality mean?

Swiss voters will decide this Sunday whether to put tighter limits on their foreign policy

By Christopher Forst

picture alliance / SIPA | Apaimages

Foreign and security policy

Just ink on paper

Six weeks in, the Mecca Defence Pact exposed the difference between making a commitment and the willingness to honour it

By Guido Gargiulo, Keith Boyfield

picture alliance / Anadolu | Mateus Bonomi

Foreign and security policy

The last bastion against Trump

Brazil’s election is a test of sovereignty in an age where political, family and business power are converging

By Sandra Weiss

pa / TASS | Maxim Churusov

Democracy and society

Stagnation by design

Russia’s State Duma election reveals a regime wary of change. Yet its risk aversion should not be mistaken for weakness

By Alexey Yusupov