International affairs, diplomacy, and the forces shaping our world.
The United Nations is often praised as humanity’s parliament and dismissed as a talking shop in the same breath. Understanding what it can and cannot do reveals a more useful truth about global cooperation.
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Democracy has never advanced in a straight line. Looking across the past century reveals a pattern of surging waves and quiet reversals that helps explain the anxious mood of the present moment.
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Behind every carefully staged handshake lies months of unseen negotiation. Understanding how summits and diplomacy actually function reveals why the theater matters as much as the substance.
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Migration is one of the defining forces of our age, yet it is too often reduced to statistics and slogans. Behind every number is a decision, a journey and a family recalculating what home means.
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In recent years an extraordinary share of humanity has been called to the polls within overlapping windows. Understanding why so many elections converge, and what it means, reveals something deep about the modern political world.
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