As a dedicated debate platform, the IPS Journal explores crucial questions in international politics, from foreign and security policy to European integration, international relations, global environmental issues and pressing social topics. The journal offers well-founded analyses from academia and the world of practice, alongside opinionated commentaries and topical interviews – all providing impetus for a fruitful opinion-forming process.
The rise of social media and the growth of the beauty industry over the past decade have been symbiotic. In hairdressing, this relationship has not only restructured the market for beauty products but also set new trends in…
While the Russian regime is tightening its grip on civil society, banning international environmental NGOs and persecuting regional activists, environmental issues remain an important field for civil society actors — even…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has looked like a lucky man in recent months. Western support for Ukraine is weakening; direct negotiations with Russia are no longer a fringe idea; and the rightward shift of Western…
Almost three years ago on 7 December 2021, representatives of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Alliance 90/The Greens and the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) signed an agreement on the establishment of a…
The victory of President-elect Donald Trump in last week’s US election may signal a period of renewed uncertainty and volatility in Washington’s bilateral relations with African capitals. However, there may also be…
‘[Women] simply need to give birth to as many children as possible and bring them up as best they can. The rest they can manage for themselves.’ This is how Vadim Shumkov, governor of Kurgan Oblast, expressed his solution…
Promising to solve domestic political problems by restoring national sovereignty is a strategy Donald Trump, Boris Johnson (‘We will take back control’) and other national populists all have in common. Although it has…
Donald Trump won the presidential election by a relatively large margin. What is the current mood in Washington?
The mood is very sombre, as the city is dominated by the Democrats. They got over 90 per cent of the vote…
A story in chess lore involves the great Danish-Jewish player Aron Nimzowitsch, who, at a tournament in the mid-1920s, found himself struggling against the German master Friedrich Sämisch. Infuriated at the thought of…
Fans of The Lord of the Rings will remember the scene where King Théoden, with his refuge of Helm’s Deep poised to fall to the marauding orcs and their ‘reckless hate’, wonders: How did it come to this? Following Donald…
