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.
As the anniversary of the 7 October massacre approaches, the fate of many hostages remains unknown. How has this affected Israeli society over the past year?
Society has been thrown completely off course – in every single…
As the world’s attention has turned to the war in Ukraine and the conflict in Gaza, a geopolitical vacuum in Libya has emerged. A vacuum that local political players and their allies in the region and abroad are exploiting…
Monday marks the one-year anniversary of the 7 October massacre. Since then, Israel has been waging war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. You and your family had to flee Gaza, but you still have relatives there. What is the…
The world is witnessing a volatile and uncertain global environment, worsened by social and economic disparities that the Covid-19 pandemic has magnified. At the domestic level, inflation, unemployment increasing climate…
In February I met a man. Three hours later, he was dead.
Mohammed Al-Omari was a paramedic with the Palestine Red Crescent Society; we met in southern Gaza. As the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and…
‘There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.’ Although it’s unlikely that Lenin ever uttered this bon mot, generally attributed to him, it’s hard to imagine anything that better…
The result was – of course – expected in Vienna and, ultimately, nobody was really shocked. That is why the international headlines are needed that describe the historical and political dimension of the FPÖ’s clear election…
A year has passed since the ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. In September 2023, after nine months of blockade, Azerbaijan launched a military operation in the region, as a result of which almost its entire population,…
Turkey’s foreign policy under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has always been characterised by an emphasised independence from its allies, with its own interests always remaining at its core — irrespective of whether they…
COP29, aptly referred to as the ‘Finance COP’, will be a watershed moment in global climate action as nations gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November to negotiate a new climate finance target to replace the aid pledge made…
