Konrad Watrin: Amid the gloom of polycrisis, there are also reasons for optimism
Vladimir Mitev Konrad Watrin is a historian, political scientist and specialist on the Middle East (PhD), who has been working...
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Should Harris be afraid of Palestine?
There is a growing feeling among US voters that the current administration could have handled the situation in Gaza more...
Cabinet of national consensus: how pragmatism is redefining reforms in Iran
Shamsoddin Shariati, LSE Blogs, Middle Eastern Centre, 5 September 2024 The new president’s entire cabinet was approved by the Iranian parliament two...
Hamada Jaber: We need a complete reshuffle and a new vision of Palestinian politics, not a life of double occupation
The Palestinian Authority (PA) destroyed all the parties, organisations, movements, institutions, any possibility of resistance, and with that, it killed...
Why will Iran’s response be different from what we expect?
Following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on 31 July, just hours after the inauguration of new...
James Schneider: Mission-like vocabulary of Keir Starmer has nothing to do with Obama or Mazzucato’s visions [VIDEO]
James Schneider - Progressive International's PR and director of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign for the 2024 UK general election - joins...
Does the new Iranian president have a chance to change his country?
The pragmatic Pezeshkian is aware that he has gained some, though certainly limited, room for change, but the question is...
Iulia Joja: Washington might force Ukraine to negotiate peace, no matter who is the new US president
Vladimir Mitev, Veronika Sušová-Saminen The Middle East Institute's Black Sea Director Iulia Joja was a guest on Cross-border Talks in...
Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat: We have to speak not of united, but of diverse and pluralistic souvereignism in Europe. And its main allegiance is not to Russia, but to… itself
Vladimir Mitev Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat is a Polish journalist focused on international relations and social issues. She is one of the...
Understanding Iran’s election engineering and its global ramifications
Siyavash Shahabi, The Fire Next Time, 6 July 2024 The post discusses the intricate political dynamics in Iran involving its...
