Tag: International Relations
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Blue pathways
Punctuated by heat, fires, and floods in all corners of the world, July 2021 exceeded all climate scientists’ models. Climate change is taking place at a faster and greater rate than previously envisaged. Perhaps less visible, but no less dramatic, are conditions off-land. Countless practices disturb our oceans today – overfishing, plastic disposal, deep sea…
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Neighbourhood instability – a call for majority voting in EU foreign policy
Ever since her nomination, Ursula von der Leyen has highlighted strategic autonomy and enhanced leadership as her top foreign policy aspirations. On a stage where power politics are undermining multilateralism and the rule of law, High Representative Josep Borrell suggests that the EU can only achieve this by learning the ‘language of power’. Two crises…
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Lake Chad – less water, more insecurity
Lake Chad’s progressive dessication fragilises the primary water supply of 40 million people.