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Russia’s changing Arctic policy: from economic ambitions to military dominance

April 11, 2025

🧭 Russia’s hybrid warfare on EU enlargement

April 10, 2025

The politics of eating: why facts and social norms don't shift diets

April 9, 2025

Gulf of America: rewriting the rules of public discourse

April 8, 2025

Balancing EU chemical policies: pollution control and competitiveness

April 7, 2025

April 11, 2025

Russia’s changing Arctic policy: from economic ambitions to military dominance

Russia’s Arctic policy has shifted from economic ambitions to military dominance, especially since the outbreak of war in Ukraine. As Western sanctions isolate Moscow, it is deepening ties with China while militarising the Arctic to counter NATO’s northern expansion. Doğuş Sönmez explains how Russia's policy on the Arctic is reshaping the geopolitical balance of the region

April 10, 2025

🧭 Russia’s hybrid warfare on EU enlargement

Russia’s hybrid tactics — emboldening sovereigntist populism, spreading disinformation, and weaponising economic hardship — threaten EU enlargement. Countermeasures, argues Denis Cenusa, are thus essential to protecting the enlargement process and the Union’s strategic resilience The European Union’s enlargement process faces unprecedented hybrid threats as geopolitical disruptions mount and socio-economic conditions deteriorate. One of the EU’s […]

April 9, 2025

The politics of eating: why facts and social norms don't shift diets

Have you ever tried to change your diet based on new information, perhaps after reading about the environmental benefits of plant-based eating or the health risks associated with processed meat –– only to find yourself slipping back into old habits? If so, you are not alone write Carolin Zorell, Nicklas Neuman and Ansung Kim

April 8, 2025

Gulf of America: rewriting the rules of public discourse

Scientific investigation into how disinformation affects democracy has never been more important. But autocrats and populists discredit such research, along with any journalism that challenges their worldview. Christoph Deppe describes how, under Trump’s second administration, changing the rules of communication is manipulating public discourse

April 7, 2025

Balancing EU chemical policies: pollution control and competitiveness

Chemical pollution is rising, and the global market share of European chemical industries is in decline. What can the EU do about it? Henry Hempel examines how the European Commission's proposed revisions to EU chemicals regulation could combine economic incentives with chemical simplification

April 4, 2025

How to monitor a new ceasefire in Ukraine

Aly Verjee and Valerie Sticher argue that an international monitoring mission could bolster a ceasefire. But any new ceasefire faces serious challenges, and will hold only if all parties heed the experience of past monitoring efforts in eastern Ukraine

April 3, 2025

Seeing is believing: how protest visuals are rewriting Romania’s future

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but protest visuals, especially during political upheaval, read like novels. Mimi Mihăilescu shows how visuals aren't just for documentation – they persuade, polarise, and shape public opinion. In Romania, where two protest factions are currently clashing, visuals are on the frontline of political warfare

April 2, 2025

Explaining the Trump loyalty cult phenomenon

Despite Donald Trump's erratic behaviour, his fan base has formed a loyalty ‘cult’ around him. Yet Elizaveta Gaufman and Adrian Favero explain how it is precisely his transgressive behaviour that is feeding Trump's charismatic authority. And this cult-like devotion of Trump loyalists, they argue, is reminiscent of darker times in US history

April 1, 2025

🌊 Radical movements' social media strategies go local

Social media platforms allow radical political actors to communicate with, and organise at, the sub-national level, enabling engagement beyond existing activist cohorts. Exploring local strategies of dissident Irish republicans and the far right in the UK and Ireland, Thomas Evans analyses this phenomenon

March 31, 2025

Environmental politics and forced evictions in Egypt

Egypt’s regime is reshaping the country's political landscape under the guise of 'sustainable development'. But such development is resulting in the forced eviction of ordinary Egyptians. Maria Gloria Polimeno reveals how the state is neglecting the dire consequences of its actions

Latest Articles

Russia’s changing Arctic policy: from economic ambitions to military dominance

🧭 Russia’s hybrid warfare on EU enlargement

The politics of eating: why facts and social norms don't shift diets

Gulf of America: rewriting the rules of public discourse

Balancing EU chemical policies: pollution control and competitiveness

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