Global conversations are often shaped without those most affected and structural barriers keep Global South voices out of key international forums.
Europe may be evolving toward a constitutional order where governance appears democratic in form, but increasingly functions in ways that reproduce oligarchic power.
Increasing international instability will test Australia’s political establishment to its limits.
Stability in Syria and in the wider region depends on pragmatic engagement with Ankara, not outdated assumptions about empire.
The US, a global magnet for over a million international students annually, gains far more than academic prestige from this influx.
Israeli strategic planners can see both the collapse of Iran and the waning of American military centrality as dual pathways to regional hegemony.
The central task is not merely to outcompete China, but to reimagine power in a world of environmental limits and democratic erosion.
The freedom of association is a fundamental tenet of liberalism, and interfering with it can evoke authoritarianism.
Parallel election monitoring does not just compete with established missions – it mimics them, subtly rewriting the rules of legitimacy from within.
Trump’s peacemaker aspirations, based on his intention to end the Russia-Ukraine war and withdraw troops from the Middle East, appears to be on shaky ground.
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