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Europe is not losing the sanctions fight

It is undermining them itself

By Svitlana Romanko

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Living with the bomb

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

By Christoph Heuser

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What does neutrality mean?

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

By Christopher Forst

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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

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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

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A calculated gesture

China and India want an end to the war in Ukraine, with Beijing offering to mediate. But what is China’s real objective?

By Marina Rudyak

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A new world order is not beckoning

We need a more realistic view of global order — one that looks beyond the clash between a fading past and an uncertain future to what really matters

By Jeremy Adelman

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Can sanctions buy freedom?

Prisoner releases are reviving debates over whether engagement with Minsk can deliver meaningful change

By Artyom Shraibman

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One bloc, two futures?

At the latest BRICS summit, Putin argued for an alternative to the existing order while Xi sought to rewrite it. The West saw only a bloc taking shape

By Abhishek Roy Choudhury

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The Sahel’s new dependency

The Sahelian juntas promised greater sovereignty. Their reliance on Russian forces may be producing the opposite

By Zikora Ibeh