In many ways, 2024 has been a year of reckoning for India, both domestically and on the global stage. It has been a year of ...

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Experts on politics in Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines weigh in on what to expect as each country’s ...

To make sense of global political trends which emerged prominently in 2024, the traditional Left-Right framework of analysis needs to be abandoned. Globalisation has led to a churning where ...

How the EU and U.K. overcome political paralysis to meet pressing challenges will be the dominant theme of European politics ...

Anti-establishment parties of populist right, and occasionally of the populist left, made inroads across Europe in elections ...

Old liberation movements in Southern Africa suffered serious electoral declines this year as millions of people made their ...

More than 60 countries – home to nearly half the planet’s population – selected their leaders. In the history of democracy, ...

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela ...

Modi’s annus horriblis leaves him on shakier ground going into 2025. Having secured a third term, he now finds himself at the ...

The Democratic Party’s image as a war party has been shaped by President Biden’s support for Israel and Ukraine, as well as ...

Alice Weidel, the long-shot chancellor candidate from the far-right Alternative for Germany, slammed the European Union for ...