Peter Magyar will distance Hungary from Russia diplomatically, but he will continue to buy Russian gas for the foreseeable future. Molly O’Neal is a university lecturer and research scholar, with a long diplomatic career focused [...]
The US have destroyed their capacity for diplomacy, leaving Israel’s approach – “negotiating with bombs,” as one advisor to Netanyahu put it – as the only one in town. John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy [...]
Trump is a mixture of rupture and continuity with the past. He can only get away with such flagrant breaches of international law because he stands on the shoulders of the US Presidents before him. [...]
Those that have taken flotillas to Gaza and Cuba are among the best of us. Olivia DiNucci is an anti-militarism and climate justice organizer based in Washington D.C. and an international experiential learning facilitator Cross-posted [...]
Concerning 16 years of Orban as Prime Minister and today’s election Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo: Fair Use Hungary has a [...]
Amidst the US-Iran negotitions, Alastair Crooke says, Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead, it seeks to upend America’s hegemonic dominance of the region — and “break the paradigm.” The whole world is [...]
What will be the role of Asia in a new world order? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko [...]
We should ditch global leadership delusions and reinvest in real diplomacy Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at the British [...]
Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early [...]