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History of the Future: Classical Realism and Trump

  • November 26, 2024

The re-election of Donald J. Trump is a testimony that history tells its jokes more than once and leaves to theoreticians the task of explaining them. Without history, theory finds refuge in the ideal; without theory, history is a series of unrelated events. A theoretician is one who extends the...

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Brazil ex-President Bolsonaro plotted election coup: Police report

  • November 26, 2024

Brazilian federal police have published a report implicating former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in an alleged criminal organisation designed to overturn the 2022 presidential election, won by his leftist challenger and current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The 884-page report, made public on Tuesday, outlined eight main pieces of...

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What does government boycott of Haaretz mean for press freedom in Israel?

  • November 26, 2024

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet approves proposal to sanction the country’s oldest newspaper. Israel’s cabinet has approved a proposal to cut all government links with Haaretz – a move that could cripple the 105-year-old newspaper financially and force it to shut down. Haaretz has condemned the action, describing it as...

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Israeli anger at ‘irresponsible and hasty’ ceasefire

  • November 26, 2024

Benjamin Netanyahu presented the ceasefire deal in the context of what he said were Israel’s “unprecedented achievements” over the past year of a seven-front war. He said Israel had set Hezbollah back “tens of years” and that it was not the same group it had been before. There was a...

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The ‘New Middle East’ That Awaits Donald Trump

  • November 26, 2024

EXPERT INTERVIEW — Less than two months before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th U.S. president, the headlines from the Middle East are dominated by the push for ceasefires in Israel’s wars against Hezbollah in Lebanon (looking more lilkely) and Gaza (looking like a distant hope). But beyond...