With the two presidential candidates running neck-and-neck, this election has stakes beyond Brazil. The growing power of US big tech is also in the spotlight.
- Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast
L’accord conclu entre les États-Unis, le Danemark et le Groenland écarte le risque d’une crise immédiate mais soulève des questions sur l’influence de Washington dans l’Arctique et sur l’avenir de la confiance au sein de l’OTAN.
When a loyal ally can be squeezed over land inside its own territory, collective defence starts to look like an open protection racket.
Both sides say they do not want war. But both have soldiers in Syria, raising the risk of miscalculation.
The US State Department calls the ICC an ‘intolerable threat to US sovereignty’. And it can significantly disrupt the court’s work.
With the latest strikes on Iran, The international legal order is now in free-fall.
The Canadian leader’s powerful speech has garnered headlines for his admission that the rules-based international order has been ruptured.
The US remains unliked to take the semi-autonomous Danish territory by force. But there’s still plenty of room for a radical shift in the international order.
So far the response across the continent to both the Greenland threats and the US’ actions in Venezuela, have been feeble and confused.
The Trump administration is reviving the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America. The aim: keeping China out and securing oil and resources for itself.
The five journalists, including two Australians, died while doing their jobs. Despite half a century of evidence and lobbying, justice remains elusive.
The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.
For the classical Greeks, citizenship was a binding relationship of reciprocal duties and obligations owed to all other citizens. The law, they believed, was king.
Failure by the West to rein in Israel’s actions has led to accusations of ‘double standards’ regarding international law.
The first papal visit to the young nation since its independence has generated widespread excitement. Behind the T-shirts and fervour, the visit is politically significant.
Some global issues have prompted partnerships between seemingly strange bedfellows at opposite ends of the political spectrum. The ‘horseshoe theory’ tries to make sense of this, but what’s it about?
An international relations scholar traces the debate about tyrannicide from the ancient world to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The origin of tyrannical power is irrelevant: whether by election, inheritance or force, if rulership is oppressive, it is tyrannical. And the way to beat it is deceptively simple: refuse to comply.
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