On January 13, 2024, Lai Ching-te, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) nominee, secured the presidency of the Republic of China (Taiwan), marking the first instance (post-democratization) when a party’s nominee […]
If every event in international politics is a turning point, one can only go and lie down, out of sheer dizziness. In reality, we have been living in the same […]
Since the early 1990s fewer United Nations peacekeepers have come from western, democratic and richer states, compared to poorer, more autocratic and often unstable countries in Africa and Asia. A […]
Not police officers but inspectors from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition led the raid at Nuctech in Warsaw and Rotterdam on 23 April. At the Chinese security equipment manufacturer, […]
The Pact will likely increase the transfer of responsibilities to non-EU countries, particularly in North Africa and the Western Balkans. Significantly, though, the reform leaves essentially unsolved the shortcomings that […]
The ending of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in Mali in 2023, coupled with preparations for concluding the more than two decades-long mission in the Democratic Republic of the […]