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Articles in Politics tagged with Global

Paul Hockenos

Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.

Andrew Ross
Jo Guldi

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

Jonathan S. Gould, Jacob S. Abolafia

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

Rajan Menon

On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Dan Berger

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

Claire Vergerio
Sovereign states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order. History shows how new they are—and how we can think beyond them.
William E. Scheuerman

Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.

Engin Önder

Erdogan is all too easily labelled a populist. But the reasons for his popularity are more complicated.

Jordan Michael Smith

The idea that Putin is driven by the philosophy of Eurasianism obscures the pragmatism of Russia's foreign policy. 

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