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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Palwasha Hassan is a Senior Technical and Program Director at Mina’s List, and a former senior fellow at the Institute for Women, Peace, and Security at Georgetown University.

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 ...

Venezuela’s broken democracy and economic hardships stand as a masterclass in institutional failure. How can the country move forward? picture alliance / Reuters | Leonardo Fernandez Viloria The civil ...

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.

As polarisation deepens, the rise of populism seems unstoppable. But focusing on shared values and local solidarity may just save democracy picture alliance / Anadolu | Luciano Adan Gonzalez Torres A ...