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Will traditional wars become rarer?

While the war in Ukraine brutally illustrates the costs of conventional warfare, non-military means are gaining a strategic role in conflicts

By Marius Müller-Hennig

Reuters

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To win the new climate war, we need a new strategy

Today's fossil-fuel lobbyists don't deny climate change. Instead, they distract from meaningful action. Activists must avoid falling into their traps

By Claudia Detsch

Reuters

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The future of Europe is here

Even though there is much to criticise about the EU, Geert Mak’s 'The Dream of Europe', shows that we have come a long way

By Marius Müller-Hennig

Reuters

Europe

Capitalism and democracy: what if we have it backwards?

It's fashionable on the left to suggest that capitalism and democracy are now incompatible. But maybe the opposite is true

By Sheri Berman

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Review of ‘For a Left Populism’

In this book, political scientist Chantal Mouffe argues that populism could be the only way to reinvigorate a faltering left

By Paul Hockenos

Reuters

North America

Of trolls, tragedies and conspiracies

What Nick Drnaso’s graphic novel Sabrina reveals about the dark mood of the Trump Era

By Thomas Greven

EPA

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Review of ‘The Decline of the West’ by Joschka Fischer

The former German foreign minister offers a keen analysis of the West’s dilemmas – complex, alarming, but not without hope

By Paul Hockenos

Reuters

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'Globalization and its Discontents Revisited'

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says workers and citizens are missing out on the benefits of globalisation

By Paul Hockenos

EPA

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Review of 'Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams' by John Feffer

Twenty-five years after fall of communism, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe – a region plagued by political and social divisions

By Paul Hockenos

EPA

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Dear Mr Trump: please read this book

Paul Hockenos' 'Berlin Calling' reveals the truth about living behind a wall – from Bowie's bohemia to neo-Nazi clashes

By Emma Bullimore