The gross miscommunication after a reasonably successful 9th TICAD is a major mistake, but it can also serve as a lesson in how far Japan must go to adapt to a rapidly changing society.

As Americans go to the polls on Tuesday, they should look to Hungary for a sense of what’s at stake.

The new EU mandate needs ambitious trade deals to fuel fair transition and respond to the populist surge.

Leadership is expected to turn over in key Western states, bringing new policies that will reverberate throughout the global order. This backgrounder examines five key figures poised to form governments in the near future.

Recent scandals involving Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and China are not an exception and reflect growing efforts by authoritarian states to destabilize Western democracies.

Spiking cartel violence has spilled onto the campaign trail, leading some organizations to classify Mexico as a high-risk country.

Italian investment into Africa has been at best inefficient and at worst ruinous for local populations in recent decades. Will Giorgia Meloni manage to change this, or will the Mattei Plan end up being business-as-usual?

Assessing the geopolitical circumstances surrounding Brazil’s potential rise as a great power.

Bolsonaro’s quiet capitulation illustrates how none of the necessary ingredients for a coup were present in Brazil in the aftermath of the presidential election.

The election might be over, but the question as to who will be Brazil’s next leader remains unanswered.

The incoming prime minister will be asked to steer the strategic Mediterannean power through increasingly fraught geopolitical waters.

Italy’s new prime minister will likely push a softer Euroscepticism that focuses on what Europe can realistically achieve by granting more powers to national governments.

Divisive politics coupled with a near total failure for Left and traditional parties to adapt to current realities are anything but exceptional in the democratic world. France’s pivotal moment is also ours.

Europe’s populist parties haven’t thrived amid COVID-19 – but their ideas have.

A new and virulent protest movement has French President Emmanuel Macron reeling. Has the self-styled ‘Jupiter’ come crashing down to Earth?

In Poland and Italy, two EU disputes are headed in two different directions.

Why are despots and dictators of every political persuasion enjoying a renaissance?