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Flipping the table

3 weeks ago | ips-journal.eu | Mark Leon Goldberg

Development has always been an elite preoccupation. Politicians, policymakers and people in the broader foreign policy community intuitively understand that promoting prosperity and social development in poor countries is an act of enlightened self-interest. It spreads goodwill and ultimately makes the world a safer and more secure place, which benefits Americans too.
The future of European defence

3 weeks ago | ips-journal.eu | Bojan Stojkovski

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, few could have predicted that Ukraine would respond not only with resilience, but with a homegrown tech ecosystem capable of reshaping the very nature of defence innovation. Yet, just three years later, Ukraine has become one of the world’s most active defence start-up hubs — a battlefield-turned-laboratory where technology is stress-tested under real fire.
Military Keynesianism is a dead end - both economically and politically

1 month ago | ips-journal.eu | Grace Blakeley

As Russia’s war on Ukraine rages on Europe’s eastern frontier, the continent’s leaders are finally willing to admit they have the power to revive their ailing economies. After decades of austerity, they are ready to spend again – but not to end poverty, accelerate decarbonisation, or reverse the collapse of essential public services. Instead, Europe’s fiscal firepower is being directed toward tanks, missiles, and fighter jets.
A trim too far?

1 month ago | ips-journal.eu | Natasha Foote

The European Commission has once again reached for the pruning shears, announcing yet another ‘simplification’ package to cut the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) down to size. But rather than simply trimming deadwood, the EU is again cutting into some of the green shoots still clinging to this increasingly threadbare farming policy.
Pope Francis opened the door for queer Africans

1 month ago | ips-journal.eu | Zikora Ibeh

The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church have elected a new Pontiff to succeed Pope Francis, the Argentine reformer who died last month after a 12-year papacy. On 8 May 2025, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV – became the first American Pope following a two-day conclave.
LAC: A Region Redefined

1 month ago | ips-journal.eu | Guadalupe Gonzalez |Monica Hirst |Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

In the last 100 days, the deeply rooted and obsolete idea that Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is still a natural US sphere of influence has been tested once more. President Donald Trump’s misguided and coercive foreign policy will most likely deliver the final blow to the notion that the region is indisputably under the United States’ exclusive control.
Human rights advocacy: Demand tolerance, not love – Democracy and society | IPS Journal

2 months ago | ips-journal.eu | Nicolas Agostini

A shift in the demands and objectives of the human rights project has led activists to adopt a sanctimonious tone — fuelling the anti-rights backlash
American brain drain?

2 months ago | ips-journal.eu | Polly Toynbee

Never let a good crisis go to waste. The crazier America seems, the more attractively sane Europe looks to much of the world. Expect a fall in US influence in culture and social attitudes, its soft power fading fast as well as its financial force. Here is where Europe will find itself a magnetic draw for those turning away in revulsion from Donald Trump’s US. One of Europe’s , with 1.66 million students from abroad studying at EU universities.
‘US sanctions remain the biggest obstacle’

2 months ago | ips-journal.eu | Jihad Yazigi

Western sanctions against Syria were initially imposed to target the Assad regime. Why are they still in place today? Sanctions were indeed imposed to target the Assad regime, but in a specific context: Bashar al-Assad’s violent repression of peaceful Syrians demanding political change. However, the context changed dramatically — the protests escalated into a complex civil war and a regional conflict involving proxy wars, radical Islamist groups and chemical weapons attacks.
ECOWAS: Fifty and fractured

2 months ago | ips-journal.eu | Zikora Ibeh

Unless last-minute diplomatic efforts can save the day, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) looks set to mark its 50th anniversary next month not only three member states short but also facing the onset of a trade war that threatens to undo its decades-long efforts at achieving regional integration and free trade. Since July 2023, the 15-member regional bloc founded in 1975 has been gripped by a crisis of legitimacy over its stance on the wave of military coups in the region.