Political science has spent decades studying what wars destroy. Contemporary wars, says Eglal Hamed Abdulgadir, suggest it may be time to ask what they produce
Global AI competition has entered a new phase. While Washington and Brussels build 'Pax Silica' around infrastructure, Beijing is developing a rival coalition around governance. At first glance, this suggests the emergence of a bipolar model. But a closer look, says Elena Yurieva, reveals a picture that is far more complex
Long celebrated as a global humanitarian donor, Norway is now being pulled towards prioritising Europe’s front line, writes Gusta Harris. Russia’s war on Ukraine has not simply redirected Oslo’s aid, rhetoric, and defence priorities – it has started to change Norway’s international role. As military support for Kyiv grows and global aid budgets come under pressure, Norway faces a new dilemma: how to become a 'Good European' without losing its 'Good Samaritan' role
A recent independent commission report revealed that people from India’s Daman and Diu region, who hold Portuguese passports, were ‘important actors’ in the 2022 outbreaks of violence in Leicester. Sonia Sarkar unpacks how multicultural Leicester turned communally divisive
Aleh Baradzin examines why the families of political prisoners and political emigrants have become part of Belarus’s repressive system. Here, he reveals how the authorities use prisoners' families to exert pressure on political opponents
The creation of new multilateral development banks (MDBs) increases competitive pressure within the system. How does such competition affect MDBs' performance? Bernhard Reinsberg and Benjamin Faude show that while pressure improves the quality of newly approved World Bank projects, it has no significant effect on ongoing ones
Conducting a conjoint survey experiment with 4,730 adults, Peter Chai and colleagues found that voters punish sexual violence most severely. Bribery, meanwhile, incurs substantial costs, adultery and nepotism are penalised less, and male candidates attract heavier punishment for sexual misconduct, whereas female candidates face lighter penalties for nepotism
We commonly hear EU leaders talk about the need to ‘defend democracy’. Yet, as Omran Shroufi shows, their discourse is often more about identifying and naming geopolitical threats than it is about tackling pervasive, home-grown structural problems of democratic disconnect and disillusionment
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