The European Union is strengthening its strategic autonomy at a time when geopolitics, hybrid threats and actual war are accelerating insecurity at sea. The situation calls for a review of the EU’s ro...

This introduction advances the concept of violent peacemaking to suggest ways that violence is constitutive of, rather than incidental to, liberal peacebuilding. It foregrounds three characteristic...

A special issue of the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship reveals how communities face climate change while navigating violence, dictatorship and ongoing crisis

Trump-administrationens nye sikkerhedsstrategi forkaster den regelbaserede verdensorden, prioriterer den vestlige halvkugle og retter et ideologisk angreb mod Europa. Hermed markerer den et markant br...

Europe risks losing long-term influence in the Sahel unless it understands the drivers of rising anticolonialism and adapts its approach. A renewed strategy must address colonial legacies and the regi...

Rusland kæmper mod vestlig imperialisme, lyder kampagnerne i det globale syd. Men bag propagandabillederne gemmer sig historier om bedrag, gæld, fattigdom og i nogle tilfælde trafficking‑lignende forh...

Across the world, conflict and capitalist dispossession inflict brutal violence on agricultural and resource-dependent populations. Drawing on ethnographic research among Indigenous Pgha k’nayaw co...

I vores del af verden har vi stort set glemt konflikten i Myanmar. Det svækker den pro-demokratiske modstand, mens det styrker militærstyret og Kinas interesser.

How to turn Trump’s tantrum into a win for everyone

Kina bygger en grøn koalition af villige. Kerneværdierne er pragmatisme, vækst og partnerskaber. Det adskiller sig fra den traditionelle alle-ombord tilgang til klimahandling, men giver alligevel håb ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine persistently relies on foreign labour and is accompanied by online recruitment campaigns targeting young Africans. Yet these campaigns are contested, and exposure to online con...

Analyses of Somali kinship groups often focus on their mobilisation during conflict, while their contributions to service provision receive less attention. We engage literature on authority in cont...

Trump 2.0. I dag er det et år siden, at Trump vendte tilbage til Det Hvide Hus. Her er fem ting, vi siden har lært om den amerikanske præsident og USA.

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I Donald Trumps USA er Spider-Mans dictum blevet vendt på hovedet: »Med stor magt følger store muligheder«. Store muligheder for at ophobe personlige rigdomme og ydmyge de svage. Og republikanerne lab...

As the US president has once again expressed desire to get control over Greenland the option of buying Greenland has surfaced discussions. In this Q&A Senior Researcher Astrid Nonbo Andersen answers q...

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Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, discusses the avenues that Denmark could take to counter U.S. President Donald Trump's Greenland threat...

Bøllemetoder. Venezuela er det første offer for den nye amerikanske sikkerhedsstrategi. Trumps USA tager, hvad det vil have – og det kan få alvorlige konsekvenser for Danmark, vurderer udenrigspolitis...

Hør dagens afsnit af ’Du lytter til Politiken’.

Donald Trump’s rationale for decapitating Venezuela’s government is fueling concerns among European officials that they could soon face an existential dilemma over Greenland.

Mikkel Runge Olesen on the history of the Danish-American relationship and the struggle over Greenland

Verdens nedrustningsaftaler ligger i ruiner. I Europa taler man om behov for atomoprustning for at imødegå truslen fra Rusland. Og Trump vil igen lave prøvesprængninger. Hvad siger forskningen om nedr...

Putin vil vise den russiske befolkning, hvordan der opbakning fra verdensmajoriteten i krigen mod Ukraine, siger dansk forsker som har besøgt fanger.

When the year 2026 terminates, so will one of the longest running UN peacekeeping missions in history, namely, UNIFIL – the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon. When UNIFIL’s mandate ends, the int...