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Pakistan merged its tribal areas but never settled the land

August 27, 2026

A new layer of deterrence: the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement

August 26, 2026

Turning the EU's South Caucasus moment into a permanent strategy

August 25, 2026

Exploiting international law for political persecution

August 24, 2026

How political science learned to stop worrying and love liberal democracy

August 21, 2026
August 20, 2026

Who would pay to leave Mercosur – and who would really lose

Nicolás E. Salvoni Tensions between Argentina and Brazil after Javier Milei's remarks warning Brussels not to 'restrict' the newly signed EU-Mercosur trade deal with safeguards have revived speculation about Mercosur's future. But Nicolás Salvoni explains why withdrawal remains unlikely. Here, he uses trade data to show why smaller economies – and Argentina's auto industry – would bear the sharpest costs, while Brazil's would be lower Read more
August 19, 2026

When deep prehistory becomes digital nationalism

Dana Sofi In 2018, scholars discovered the 75,000-year-old remains of a Neanderthal woman in Shanidar Cave, Iraq. What followed, argues Dana Sofi, reveals how even deep prehistory can become political. Once the woman's reconstructed face circulated online, 'Shanidar Z', as she was named, grew into more than an archaeological finding, coming to represent digital struggles over identity, territory and belonging Read more
August 18, 2026

The grim future of European migration policy

Agnese Pacciardi At the end of July, over the space of two days, around 72,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The largest such crossing on record, it became the first real-world test of the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum. Agnese Pacciardi says the crisis resulted in weakened solidarity between member states, rushed deportations, and the neglect of human rights Read more
August 17, 2026

Private education and the limits of uniformity

Pierce Leslie Britain’s debate over private schooling often treats fairness as a choice between a divided system and a common one. Pierce Leslie argues that equality depends on whether funding, capacity and accountability reach the pupils who need them most Read more
August 13, 2026

🦋 Building a pluriversal democracy where many worlds fit

Mebratu Kelecha Mebratu Kelecha argues that democracy should not force deep differences into one supposedly universal language. A pluriversal democracy would protect conflict without elimination, recognise the right to opacity, and build institutions in which Indigenous law, more-than-human claims, and revisable political settlements can coexist. Rather than demanding final consensus, it would preserve legitimate difference Read more

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