This week for @wpr World Politics Review, I take a look at how protests against authoritarian oligarchs in Georgia are a symbol of how those fighting for democracy in Europe and the wider world need to win the battle for hope
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/georgia-protests-democracy/

This week for @wpr World Politics Review, I take a look at the three strategic delusions that keep leading to policy failures from the European Union when it comes to Syria and the wider Middle East
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/syria-eu-europe-assad/

This week for @wpr, I look at how polarisation is part of a wider crisis in the role news media play in US political life whose beginnings reach back to the heyday of public affairs talk shows like Crossfire or the McLaughlin Group
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-media-political-polarization/

This week for @wpr, I look at the reasons why Arab states are paralysed in the face of a conflict escalation spiral that is unfolding between Israel and Iran
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/israel-war-egypt-gulf/

This week for @wpr World Politics Review, I take a look at what the disastrous outcomes of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 can tell us about risks surrounding the Israeli state's current attempt to destroy Hezbollah on Lebanese soil
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/israel-hamas-hezbollah-war/

This week for @wpr World Politics Review, I take a look at why the EU struggles to exert influence over developments in the Middle East
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/eu-europe-israel-hezbollah-hamas/

This week for @wpr World Politics Review, I look at how Chancellor Olaf Scholz's decision to implement police checks on Germany's borders with EU neighbours is mere political theatre that will neither resolve migration challenges nor help defeat the far right AfD
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-migration-border-patrols/

This week for @wpr World Politics Review, I take a look at the impact that gains for the AfD and BSW in Saxony and Thuringia's regional elections could have on German politics
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-elections-politics-afd/

This week for @wpr World Politics Review, I take a look at how Washington's inability to influence events in Sudan and Myanmar indicate growing limits to US power that will confront Donald Trump or Kamala Harris after presidential elections in November
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-waning-hegemony-global-order/