The AfD has long converted the use of parliament into an abuse of parliament. The strategy of undermining and disabling Germany’s parliaments — its 16 state parliaments and one federal parliament, plus numerous local councils — has been practiced by the AfD ever since it entered Germany’s state parliaments in …

Louis Althusser’s interpretation of Karl Marx is marked by a fundamental distinction between the early writings of Marx and the theoretical work that emerged from the mid-1840s onward. In For Marx and Reading Capital, Althusser develops the argument that Marx’s intellectual development cannot be understood simply as a gradual accumulation …

As Trump chose the path of barbarism, threatening to annihilate the Islamic Republic and dismantling international institutions, Lula took the UN pulpit to defend another path: diplomacy, dialogue and civilisation, and questioned a foundational idea of International Relations. The main international politics and geopolitical messages in Lula’s UN General Assembly …

Turkey and Hezbollah are quietly expanding channels of communication as Ankara seeks to manage the group and stop it from playing any destabilising role in Syria, while also trying to deter what it sees as growing Israeli threats in the region, according to analysts. The contacts come as tensions between …

With olive harvest season approaching in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian farmers are preparing for a crop that has long been far more than an agricultural event. For generations, families have gathered in their fields during the harvest, with men, women and children picking olives together before taking them to …

A summer of escalation in the Black Sea has hurt Ukraine economically and is exacerbating world food security. A truce is needed—as is a broader reframing of Europe’s Ukraine strategy. It has been a long, hot, and dangerous summer in the Black Sea, where long-range missiles have delivered destruction to …

Les marchés mondiaux connaissent une pénurie de diesel. Il s’agit du carburant le plus important, car il est utilisé par la plupart des services de transport terrestre, toutes les machines agricoles et de nombreuses sources d’énergie autonomes. Les raisons de cette pénurie sont évidentes : Depuis plus d’un an, les …

La «clause des États ennemis» place l’Allemagne sous la tutelle des vainqueurs de la Seconde Guerre mondiale depuis 1945. Jamais abrogée, cette disposition souligne les limites actuelles de la souveraineté allemande.Remarques préliminaires Récemment, la «clause des États ennemis» de la Charte des Nations unies — tombée depuis longtemps dans l’oubli …

Key Takeaways: Washington as a stage. Xi is due Wednesday, 23 Sept, with trade, AI, and security on the card. RFA’s Ding Wang (pseudonym): the real audience is home, before next year’s Party congress and a possible fourth term. A high-profile Trump meeting, then state TV, is meant to show …

September 27, 2024 – The deadly pager attack in Lebanon has sparked global concerns over supply chain security. Chinese international relations scholar Shen Yi stated that China should take some measures in response to the U.S.’s increasingly aggressive stance in the strategic competition with China. When someone first sent me …