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Can a Labour government go far enough with constitutional reform to deflect renewed Scottish demands for independence?
Germans worry about immigration, Poles about Ukraine, Danish and French about climate change, and the British about Covid
Irish academics offer insights into Ireland’s increasingly outward-looking place in the world as mediated through the EU and its institutions
Councillors lack the power and the funding to meet the needs of a rapidly changing and more diverse Irish society
Weak central government that fails to deliver is making the nationalist case in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland stronger
After two years of fighting, the war has entered a phase that threatens even greater danger - but there may also be scope for a suboptimal resolution that could be accepted by all sides
Insightful analysis of uncertainty of United Kingdom’s future under the pressures of devolution, inequality, regional dissatisfaction and Brexit
In the event of the US no longer having Europe’s back, the EU will have to find a new balance between foreign policy, security and defence
The greatly increased use of the term Global South reflects the old international liberal order giving way to a world less focused on development or cultural difference
Human rights are enhanced, not weakened, by dialogue and mutual learning that takes history and cultural specificity in to account
If Europe is to create a more coherent and credible foreign policy towards the Middle East, the EU needs to be clear about what it wants
Normalisation implies reconciliation after conflict. That will now be impossible in the form identified is the 2020 Abraham accords between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain
Worldview: A new book compares the infrastructure of globalisation to previous empires’ roads, seaways and highways
Co-authors Brigid Laffan and Stefan Telle have produced an insightful work in The EU’s Response to Brexit: United and Effective
World View: This summer’s sea temperatures are off the charts. But the ocean can no longer store the energy caused by the climate change