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.
It was the afternoon of 18 April. The New York Police Department officers descended on the Columbia University campus to dismantle the solidarity encampment set up by students opposing the ongoing war in Gaza. The…
Labor Day – the US version of Labour Day, celebrated on the first Monday in September – traditionally marks the start of the crucial phase in the US election campaign. What has been a relatively low-key affair during the…
The challenges Europe is facing are clear; the foundations on which the European Union has built its peace and prosperity have been shaken. Its economy is not fit to cope with growing global competition; geopolitical…
What do 12 million European households, Europe’s chemical industry and German agriculture have in common? That’s right – high greenhouse gas emissions. In the last five years, all three areas have emitted more than fifty…
Who could have guessed that after the hard-fought victory of the left-wing alliance in the early parliamentary elections, the trailing conservatives would now benefit from the weakness of the Macron camp? In fact, they are…
In the German-speaking world, the election season began just in time for the beginning of September. Nerves are on edge. In the regional elections in Thuringia and Saxony, two eastern-German Bundesländer (states), the…
All the main presidential candidates for the autumn elections have been chosen in Moldova. Voting is scheduled for 20 October. On the same day, the country will hold a referendum on European integration — if it passes and…
Twenty-six years ago, 120 states adopted the Rome Statute, creating the legal basis for the International Criminal Court (ICC), which commenced operations four years later. The establishment of the first universal and…
The Pacific Islands – a grouping largely made up of small island developing states – is in the middle of an increasingly contested strategic space, making regional politics an important, and closely observed, site. At the…
The completion of the capital markets union is high on the agenda of European Union politicians. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, wrote in the Financial Times in May: ‘We need…
