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Amid their fixation on the rivalry between Le Pen and Macron, commentators outside France are paying far less attention to the country’s alliance of left-wing parties, whose fortunes are improving rapidly, Alexander Clarkson writes.
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Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have strengthened their economic and security ties, a reflection of the shifting geopolitical landscape in the Middle East.
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While the far right surges in the rest of Europe, the UK is set to move in the opposite direction in tomorrow’s general elections. The question now is what the Labour government will do once in power. Read more here:
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A reformist and a hardliner will face off in the runoff of Iran’s presidential election on Friday after a first round last week that saw record-low turnout. Read more in today’s Daily Review:
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The US Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance program aims to develop a new fighter and ensure the service’s airspace control. The program may already be in peril.
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As was widely expected, incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani won Mauritania’s presidential election. But his victory overshadowed the accelerating reconfiguration of the country’s political opposition.
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The kind of attempted military coup seen in Bolivia last week is no longer common across Latin America the way it once was. But while threats to democracy may have changed, they haven’t disappeared.
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ICYMI: In my latest for @wpr.bsky.social, I highlight the today's formation of alliance blocs is more an echo of pre-WWI than of the Cold War. #polisky
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The far-right National Rally won the first round of France’s snap parliamentary elections, a clear sign that any taboo around the party is now long gone. Read more in today’s Daily Review:
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Multilateral wars do not just happen. They are preceded by rapid movements toward alliance formation and consolidation of the kind we are seeing today, @profpaulpoast.bsky.social writes.
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Upcoming elections in the US, France and Iran all present worrisome prospects on the horizon for global politics. Read our take on all three in today’s Daily Review:
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Alliance blocs are hardening and consolidating. That's not a good sign. I explain why in my latest for @wpr.bsky.social.
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The UN isn’t exactly at the heart of the British election campaign. But a Labour government will still have to decide how much political capital to invest in multilateralism, at a time when international tensions buffet the UN system.
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Ukraine needs to reduce its dependency on foreign aid for its war effort and create a domestic defense industrial base capable of producing the ammunition and defense equipment it needs to defend itself against Russia’s aggression, Zachary Popovich writes.
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A top Bolivian general failed in his attempted coup yesterday, both a reassuring sign for the country’s democracy and a reminder of the challenges it continues to face. Read more in WPR’s free daily newsletter:
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Recent technical meetings in Bonn were meant to set the agenda for COP29. Instead, the talks failed to live up to the moment, leaving efforts to achieve climate goals later this year on an uncertain path.
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Attention is already turning to the question of whether a collapse of the UK right was always inevitable—and what comes next.
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This week for World Politics Review, I take a look at how factors in recent UK history that brought about the collapse of the Tory tradition might also influence the future of an emerging post-Tory Right
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Protests that gripped Kenya’s capital yesterday were ostensibly about a tax bill, but in reality the roots of the grievances run much deeper. Read more in today’s Daily Review:
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is rejecting domestic reforms that many consider necessary. But his focus on industrial investment and manufacturing could still yield both domestic and international benefits.
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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s key roles on the EU stage have incentivized Brussels to turn a blind eye to her domestic policy agenda, whose extremism is increasingly at odds with both the EU’s liberal principles and its laws, John Boyce writes.
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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, agreed to plead guilty in a US case against him, ending a yearslong legal battle that raised concerns about the sanctity of press freedoms in the United States. Read more here:
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In a recent interview, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa took shots at a number of his fellow regional leaders. His comments may foreshadow the direction that ideological debates take in Latin American politics over the coming decade.
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President Javier Milei is leading an all-out attack on women’s rights and gender equality in Argentina. The country’s feminists are fighting back, Cora Fernández Anderson writes.
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Decisionmakers in the Global North now see climate action as a political and economic opportunity, rather than a necessary sacrifice. That’s both good and bad. Read more in WPR’s free daily newsletter:
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It would be tempting to frame the debate over China’s rise as one between those who are worried about China becoming a global power and those who are not. But the current debate in policy circles seems more accurately to consist of four views:
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Many South Africans hope that the country’s new governing coalition will rejuvenate the ANC and force the country’s political parties to tackle the myriad challenges South Africa faces. That hope ignores the scale of the country’s—and coalition’s—problems.
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The Taliban will attend a UN-hosted conference on Afghanistan later this month, a controversial invitation vocally criticized by Afghan women’s right activists. Read more in today’s Daily Review:
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How should US approach China's rise? This is a key debate in Washington. In my latest for @wpr.bsky.social , I identify the debate's four "camps":
- Victory hawks
- Deter & Deny dovish-hawks
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- Calm Down doves
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Armenia has requested to pull out of the Russia-led CSTO. As Frida Ghitis writes, the announcement isn’t a surprise, but it is a major blow to Moscow’s influence in the South Caucasus region.
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Against a backdrop of increased repression and ongoing economic crisis, the high turnover in Tunisia’s government seems like the perfect way for President Kais Saied to find scapegoats for his own lack of solutions for the country’s problems, Francisco Serrano writes.
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Iran is expanding its ability to produce enriched uranium, the latest twist in a series of mixed signals sent by Tehran regarding its nuclear program. Read more in today’s Daily Review:
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French President Emmanuel Macron has thwarted Marine Le Pen’s far-right RN before. But the RN has also adapted, and gradually found ways to outmaneuver its leftist and centrist adversaries, Alexander Clarkson (@aphclarkson.bsky.social) writes.
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Indian PM Narendra Modi has promised “a new chapter in rise of women’s power” during his third term. Given his record so far, India’s women are understandably skeptical of any meaningful change, Aishwarya Bhuta writes.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a mutual defense agreement at a summit in Pyongyang, a significant elevation of their bilateral relationship. Read more in WPR’s free daily newsletter:
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This week for World Politics Review, I take a closer look at how Emmanuel Macron might have underestimated the discipline and guile of the French Far Right
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Bolivia is the only country in the world that elects its top judges by popular vote—but the judicial elections that should have taken place in 2023 never did. Now, those elections are the crux of a power struggle defining Bolivian politics.
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A Chinese vessel and a Philippine supply ship collided yesterday in the South China Sea, marking the latest and one of the most serious in a series of confrontations between the two sides. Read more in today’s Daily Review:
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Both the US state of Oregon and the Canadian province of British Columbia have reversed short-lived drug decriminalization policies. The reason why has less to do with the policies and more to do with how they were politicized.
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Peru’s president and Congress are deeply unpopular. That’s not keeping them from undoing the country’s democracy.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to dissolve the country’s War Cabinet is just one of a flurry of recent developments that in all likelihood will have little effect on the ground. Read more in today’s Daily Review:
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It is past time for states and the international community at large to act on their words of support by ensuring the continued work of some of the international justice system’s most crucial allies—Palestinian civil society actors. Yassir Khudayri writes:
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South Africa’s ANC formed a coalition government, buying President Cyril Ramaphosa another term in office. Rather than a turnaround, it may be the party’s last gasp. Read more in today’s Daily Review:
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This is the 50th meeting of the G7. But could the group make it through another 50? I'm not so sure. I explain why in my latest for @wpr.bsky.social.
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South Korea is increasingly making an effort to build ties beyond its traditional regional focus in the Asia-Pacific. Its latest focus? Africa and the Middle East.
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In Russia, the EU election drew attention at the highest level. And as the results started rolling in, it became clear that for Putin, the outcome was mostly good news.
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This year’s G7 summit is marked by contrast: The group has risen back to prominence, but most of its leaders are weakened at home. Read more in WPR’s free daily newsletter:
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The UK’s upcoming general election will likely mark the death of a Tory tradition that has shaped the country for centuries. With the collapse of this ancient tradition, it is not just a political party that is coming to an end, but a political order.
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While reducing the gender gap in political leadership is a worthy goal, we cannot assume that merely putting women into leadership positions will be sufficient to address the myriad manifestations of gender inequality, @hilarymatfess.bsky.social writes.
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The EU’s decision to impose additional tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles marks the culmination of a number of trends in global politics. Read more in today’s Daily Review:
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