There are good reasons for Irish people to pay close attention to what’s happening in Scotland
Worldview: If the SNP recovers its strength, the union will weaken - with consequences for the island of Ireland
Ukraine incursion into Russia could make it easier to talk about peace negotiations
Worldview: Public opinion is changing in Ukraine, with 44 per cent support for peace talks
JD Vance is part of a new generation of aristopopulists seeking regime change
Worldview: Vance’s thinking draws on a serious body of conservative political, policy and intellectual ideas from recent years
History suggests democracy will not be saved by further disconnection of economy from society
There are significant parallels - and differences - between countermovements that gripped Europe and the US about 100 years ago and forces shaping politics today
Englishness and Britishness are not the same. That matters as nationalism resurges in the UK
Can a Labour government go far enough with constitutional reform to deflect renewed Scottish demands for independence?
The five different ‘crisis tribes’ dividing European politics
Germans worry about immigration, Poles about Ukraine, Danish and French about climate change, and the British about Covid
Two valuable studies of Ireland’s relationship with the EU
Irish academics offer insights into Ireland’s increasingly outward-looking place in the world as mediated through the EU and its institutions
Overworked, older and mostly male: Ireland has Europe’s weakest local government
Councillors lack the power and the funding to meet the needs of a rapidly changing and more diverse Irish society
The deep problems facing Britain will continue to dog Labour
Weak central government that fails to deliver is making the nationalist case in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland stronger
Messy peace deal may be better option than continuing war in Ukraine
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
Fractured Union. Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK: far-seeing and compelling
Insightful analysis of uncertainty of United Kingdom’s future under the pressures of devolution, inequality, regional dissatisfaction and Brexit
‘By the way, Nato is dead’: If Trump wins, Europe is on its own
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
Like it or not, the Global South expresses a new geopolitical reality
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
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is 75 this weekend. But how universal are those rights?
Human rights are enhanced, not weakened, by dialogue and mutual learning that takes history and cultural specificity in to account
The EU must stop delegating the Middle East question to the United States
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