THE WATER thieves come at night. They arrive in trucks, suck water out of irrigation canals and drive off. This infuriates Alejandro Meneses, who owns a big vegetable farm in Coquimbo, a parched ...

The Red Sea is rapidly becoming a highly contested zone, where traditional and emerging global powers are vying for influence ...

For over a hundred years, the study of International Relations (IR) has been shaped by a handful of big ideas about how the ...

For Brussels, usually more comfortable with five-year plans than five-minute decisions, this moment demands something radical: action. Europe has spent decades perfecting the art of diplomatic hedging ...

A decade after the Paris Agreement, fossil-fuel lobbying, online disinformation and shifting politics are eroding hard-won ...

Oil has long been the engine that powers the world. Countries rely on it to fuel cars, planes, factories, and economies. Its ...

The title of this essay might be a bit misleading at first. Countries keep setting ever-more stringent emission reduction and higher financing targets at every UN Conference of the Parties (COP) to ...

Asia’s politics are marked by extraordinary diversity, with forms of governance ranging from liberal democracies to authoritarian regimes. Economic success has not always brought about democratic ...

In voting in Canada and Australia, right-wing parties that borrowed from the MAGA playbook were punished. Elsewhere, President Trump is having a more complex impact. By Matina Stevis-Gridneff ...

Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics Maarten A. Hajer and Jeroen Oomen Oxford Univ. Press (2025) Every now and again, you look forward to a book. You follow the ...

In the first three days of 2025, Elon Musk commandeered global politics through dozens of rapid-fire, often inflammatory posts to his 210 million followers on X. The world’s richest person called for ...

Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass (L) waves the Olympic flag next to US skateboarder Tate Carew (R) after their plane landed during an event celebrating the arrival of the Olympic flag at Los Angeles ...