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What Andy Burnham's psychology tells us about his foreign policy

August 12, 2026

How come we're still asking why wars endure?

August 11, 2026

Dicing the onion: dissecting top-down assumptions about Chinese discourse control

August 10, 2026

Who moves next in the global AI race?

August 7, 2026

Why anti-EU rhetoric persists without an anti-EU public

August 6, 2026
August 6, 2026

The missing actor in the US-Iran conflict: the Iranian people

Mahmoud Rasouli Mahmoud Rasouli argues that debates over the US-Iran confrontation focus overwhelmingly on governments while overlooking the people most affected by their decisions. Although both Washington and Tehran frequently claim to act on behalf of ordinary Iranians, citizens rarely influence the policies pursued in their name Read more
August 5, 2026

The EU's Indo-Pacific problem is not capability, it is perception

Nicholas Ross Smith Four years after launching its Indo-Pacific Strategy, the EU still isn't seen as a serious geopolitical player in the 'region'. Closing this perception gap, not building more capability, argues Nicholas Ross Smith, is Brussels' real challenge Read more
August 4, 2026

The digital confession box: a Foucauldian analysis of social media bans

Grace Cerenko In the lively debate on under-16 social media bans, both camps risk missing precisely what it is that keeps people returning to these platforms. Embracing the insights of the twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault, argues Grace Cerenko, sheds valuable light on how social media operates. Armed with this understanding, we can design effective legislation to alleviate its harm Read more
August 4, 2026

The promise of the Interoperable Europe Act

Evangelos Palaskas The EU’s Interoperable Europe Act aims to enable seamless data flows and online public services across borders. Drawing on EU digital regulation research, Evangelos Palaskas illustrates how the Act's governance, agenda and political challenges will shape the next phase of digital government in the European Union Read more
August 3, 2026

My love, my car: inside right-wing transport policy

Flora Baumgartner Opposition to sustainable transport projects is growing, because of distributive and identity grievances familiar from broader climate policy. Flora Baumgartner looks at how transport policies are contested locally, and how they act as glue for right-wing parties, locally and at a European level Read more

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