Réforme des retraites: le gouvernement a-t-il dépassé les bornes?
Promesse électorale d’Emmanuel Macron en 2016, la réforme des retraites peine à voir le jour. Déjà abandonnée en 2019, sa deuxième version se heurte une nouvelle fois à une très More
Why The Biden Document Scandal Is Unlikely to Change His 2024 Calculations
New Year, New Biden? After a shaky two years in the White House, the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023 heralded what seemed to be a new lease on More
The rise of BRICS: A New Multipolar International Order?
The economic coalition BRICS (an acronym for its members: Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa), has rapidly risen to become a major actor in the global arena. With increased More
Meeting the Taliban at Tashkent: A New Hope for Multilateral Diplomacy in the Protection of Afghan Human Rights
There has been limited media attention directed at the latest multilateral meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. With representatives from almost 30 countries, diplomatic bodies, and journalists, the conference sought to redirect More
Northern Ireland and the Protocol: Adjusting to the New Reality of Brexit
The border between Ireland and Northern Ireland is crossed by some 30 000 people every day for work. Travel across the border is unrestricted, but this partition still has an More
Crisis in Sri Lanka: the New Theater of Rivalry Between India and China
In 2022, Sri Lanka, an island nation of 22 million inhabitants to the south of India, suffered its worst crisis since its independence in 1947. Months of mass protests culminated More
President Abdel Fatah El Sisi’s “ New Egyptian Republic”: A Lived Reality?
The June 30th, 2013 revolution was a turning point in Egyptian history. While some Egyptians describe the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi, in 2013, by Military General More
Op-Ed: Turkey’s Mediation in the Ukrainian War: The Arbitrator we did not Expect
In light of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Western world has sought unity in the face of Russian aggression. The European Union (EU) and the United States (US) chose More
Developing Countries and Climate Change – Suffering the Consequences without the Benefits
An external existential threat of the nature of climate change, without a concrete aggressor nor a traditional adversarial strategy, has yet to be faced by our modern political world order. More
Behind Libya’s Never-Ending Cycle of Crisis
Torn by a civil war that has been ongoing since a NATO intervention in 2011 toppled the long-ruling dictator Muammar-AlQaddhafi, Libya seems to be deeply divided, rendering the county a More