Amin Saikal is a emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University; and Vice Chancellor's Strategic Fellow at Victoria University. Depending on the Iranian ...

Daniel Harper is a reporter and correspondent specialising in migration, human rights and geopolitical reporting. Graduating from City, University of London with an MA in International Journalism, and ...

Anja Dargatz is the head of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s (FES) regional office in Venezuela. She previously headed the FES offices in Baden-Württemberg, Bolivia and Sudan. She worked in the Peace ...

The recent arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, sought to weaken, even incapacitate the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). At the same time, the move was to act as a deterrent to the ...

The first round of the Romanian presidential elections in November 2024 sent a shockwave across the world and sparked significant concern both domestically and internationally. As the country braces ...

Kirsten Hartmann is a policy officer in the Europe and International Politics programme at the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung. She studied international relations and peace studies in Erfurt, ...

Emilian Kavalski is the NAWA Chair Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) and the Book Series Editor for Routledge’s ‘Rethinking Asia and International Relations’ series. He also ...

Progress on women’s rights and representation is stalling. And the prospects for improvement appear bleak ...

Child labour, land grabbing, pollution — the EU’s supply chain law is intended to oblige companies to protect people and the environment. But despite years of democratic negotiations at European level ...

The freeze in funding for USAID from the new Donald Trump administration has sent a shockwave through international development. USAID was established by John F Kennedy, with programmes focused on ...

The UN Climate Change Conference in Baku was shaken right at the start by the announcement that US President-elect Donald Trump was planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement once again.