France’s president-elect made his name in the global arena, and has a diplomatic bent. Revitalising French foreign policy may well be among his early successes.
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FROM OUR ARCHIVES (UPDATED) Hungary has passed a law monitoring the finances of foreign-funded NGOs, another blow to civil society in Viktor Orban’s increasingly “illiberal democracy”.
Other regions may be helpful to Erdoğan for a short time, but they cannot substitute the economic and political contributions Turkey requires of Europe.
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The Conversation Global asked scholars from around the world what they thought of Emmanuel Macron’s victory, and what means for their country.
Balancing domestic expectations and delicate relations with neighbours while trying to deal with North Korea’s race to become a nuclear power will make for a challenging five-year term.
Macron’s win showed France is internationalist, outward looking, pro-EU and free market-oriented; Le Pen’s rise revealed that it’s also nationalist, protectionist, anti-EU and suspicious of outsiders.
Trying to reintegrate foreign fighters who return home shouldn’t be considered the soft option. Governments in countries like Morocco and Tunisia need to respond realistically to a complex problem.
Never before in French presidential elections have commentators and pundits expressed alarming concern about the size of the blank voting.
French voters should understand what it means to live in a country where autocratic populism is the rule.
France’s two presidential candidates diverge markedly on many issues, but nothing is as divisive as France’s relationship with the EU.
Migration and asylum issues have come to epitomise France’s political tensions and to reflect the critical decisions that will face its next president.
The show is mostly an effective use of pop culture as propaganda.
The numerous opposition groups battling to unseat President Salva Kiir lack a shared agenda and common approach. Sadly, too, no group is working towards a unified future for South Sudan.
Former president Ricardo Lagos, who is revered for standing up to the dictator Augusto Pinochet, says goodbye to public life.
Scientists from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe take on the White House with facts from the ground they stand on.
In India, a series of vicious attacks by ‘cow vigilantes’ signals that Hindu extremism is on the rise.
A case study from the height of the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries illustrates that even the most brutal leaders can choose to compromise for stability.
Should France apologise for committing war-time atrocities?
A survey shows that candidates who exploited populism in one way or the other during the first round of the French presidential election captured about half of the vote.
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