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Democracy and society

The time to support the Global South is now

The war in Ukraine has monopolised the Global North’s attention and resources when the Global South is still dealing with the effect of many crises

By Martin Schulz

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Democracy and society

The false promise of democratic peace

The belief that democracies don’t start wars, but only dictatorships do, has been central to the Anglo-American worldview. But it is more complicated

By Robert Skidelsky

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Work and digitalisation

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is a colossally bad idea

Elon Musk mistakes Twitter for some sort of ‘digital town square’. In reality, it’s a global publisher that — like any other — needs to be regulated

By Steven Hill

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Economy and ecology

How the war in Ukraine impacts global supply chains

The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience

By Ram Ganeshan, Tonya Boone

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Democracy and society

On the importance of disagreement

For democracy to survive, we need in-depth engagements with different perspectives and arguments — and not black and white thinking

By Anja Wehler-Schöck

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Foreign and security policy

Ukraine, NATO, and a Zeitenwende

Many NATO members are watching the war in Ukraine unfold without grasping the reality of the situation. They must rethink NATO’s strategic future

By Paul Mason

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Economy and ecology

The coming world order

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended the existing world order — and with it the global energy, production, distribution, and financial systems

By Marc Saxer

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Democracy and society

What’s next for African and Asian war refugees?

African and Asian students who fled the war in Ukraine face not just the racism of Europe’s refugee policy, but also an uncertain educational future

By Emmanuel Achiri, Hrishabh Sandilya

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Democracy and society

The implosion of history

The war in Ukraine is rooted in a multitude of historical events and timelines that have been compressed into a single destructive phenomenon

By Michael Marder

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Future of social democracy

Time to decamp from cold-war ideas

Those sections of the left which still think of the world in blocs are guilty of blocked thinking

By Sheri Berman