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Why the West needs the UN

With hopes for a liberal peace fading, the West’s best option is to return to the UN’s collective security system

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A twisted game

The US pushes Europe to designate the Lebanese Hizbollah as a terrorist organisation. But this only serves to pressure Iran

By Heiko Wimmen

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Playing by your own rules

Why Europe should have long stopped selling arms to the Near and Middle East

By Herbert Wulf

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'Civil war is possible'

Left-wing intellectual Edgardo Lander on the political crisis in Venezuela, the role of the US and the left's failure to learn

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Here to stay

Benjamin Netanyahu will most likely form the next government after the Knesset elections – despite facing legal proceedings

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'Colombia could become a target of retaliation'

Kristina Birke Daniels on why intervention in Venezuela would destabilise its closest neighbour and endanger the peace process

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The global threat of white terror

Massacres like the Christchurch shooting are part of broader patterns of far-right terrorism and demand a serious response

By Bjørn Ihler

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India-Pakistan: where do we go from here?

While it delivered short-term victories for Khan and Modi, the India-Pakistan standoff might set an unwelcome precedent

By Aryaman Bhatnagar

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Afghanistan’s next chapter

The US failed to win the war in Afghanistan and learn from past mistakes. It's time to break the cycle of unlearned lessons

By Dhruva Jaishankar

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A nuclear consensus

Why Germany and France must strengthen their cooperation in questions of nuclear proliferation and arms control

By Emmanuelle Maitre