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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 6h
Bangladesh’s embrace of Mandarin signals that its government is no longer as willing—or perhaps no longer feels as politically constrained—to keep India at the center of its foreign policy.
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Bangladesh’s Mandarin Push Signals a New Strategic Direction
The initiative reflects both economic ambitions and Dhaka’s efforts to diversify its relationships.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 7h
The U.S. and China are often described as locked in a “strategic stalemate,” with neither able to prevail in an all-out trade war. The bigger threat to their relationship may now come from inside each country.
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The Biggest Threat to U.S.-China Ties May Be Their Domestic Politics
Washington and Beijing both face economic turmoil and fraught civil-military relations, with highly uncertain leadership transitions looming.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 10h
Trump’s deal with Denmark secured U.S. military rights in Greenland without ownership—and it may offer a way out of the impasse he helped create over Diego Garcia, the Indian Ocean island hosting a joint U.S.-U.K. base, Candace Rondeaux writes.
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The Solution to Trump’s Diego Garcia Problem Runs Through Greenland
The deal with Denmark offers a template for the U.S. to balance its security needs with its partners’ concerns over sovereignty.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 11h
Latin American leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this year all invoked sovereignty—but each defined it differently in dealing with Washington, leaving the region unable to speak with one voice, @perez1oj.bsky.social writes.
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At the U.N., Latin America Agreed Only When It Cost Nothing
If the region remains unable to speak with one voice, its nations are destined to be items on powerful actors’ agendas.
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GlobalPost @globalpost.bsky.social · 12h
Bosnia and Herzegovina votes Oct. 4 in what analysts call one of its most consequential elections since the 1995 Dayton Accords—a test of whether the country can break three decades of ethnic obstruction and paralysis. Get the whole preview from GlobalPost:
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 13h
From Mandarin classes in public schools to Chinese-backed port expansion and talks to buy Chinese fighter jets, Bangladesh is drawing closer to Beijing as its ties with India strain, signaling a new strategic direction.
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Bangladesh’s Mandarin Push Signals a New Strategic Direction
The initiative reflects both economic ambitions and Dhaka’s efforts to diversify its relationships.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 14h
Washington and Beijing both face economic turmoil, fraught civil-military relations and highly uncertain leadership transitions. Those pressures at home may be the biggest threat to U.S.-China ties.
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The Biggest Threat to U.S.-China Ties May Be Their Domestic Politics
Washington and Beijing both face economic turmoil and fraught civil-military relations, with highly uncertain leadership transitions looming.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez blames judges for the country’s near-record violence, and her government is cutting their budget. Will squeezing the courts deliver the security she promised—or hand an advantage to the cartels?
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In Costa Rica, Fernandez’s Fight With the Judiciary Puts Her Security Agenda at Risk
The government’s funding cuts for courts and prosecutors could wind up benefiting violent gangs and drug cartels.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
India’s crackdown on coverage of this summer’s youth-led protests has been quieter than an outright ban but no less powerful, as its opacity pushes journalists and creators toward self-censorship, Viren Naidu writes.
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India’s Gen Z Protests Exposed a New Architecture of Digital Control
Journalists and activists who chronicled the country’s youth uprising say they continue to face the consequences of an online crackdown.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bangladesh’s push to teach Mandarin in its public schools and universities may be less a language policy than an early indicator of where the country sees its interests heading, Srijita Datta writes.
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Bangladesh’s Mandarin Push Signals a New Strategic Direction
The initiative reflects both economic ambitions and Dhaka’s efforts to diversify its relationships.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have made summitry a hallmark of this year. But good personal relations between the two leaders do not equate to stable bilateral ties, Mary Gallagher writes.
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The Biggest Threat to U.S.-China Ties May Be Their Domestic Politics
Washington and Beijing both face economic turmoil and fraught civil-military relations, with highly uncertain leadership transitions looming.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez’s feud with the judiciary could end up aiding the cartels, columnist James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social) writes. Her government has cut about $77 million from this year’s judicial budget, including funds for police and prosecutors.
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In Costa Rica, Fernandez’s Fight With the Judiciary Puts Her Security Agenda at Risk
The government’s funding cuts for courts and prosecutors could wind up benefiting violent gangs and drug cartels.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Indian government departments used a legal provision requiring no written justification or independent review to take down coverage of this summer’s Gen Z protests, and confidentiality rules bar platforms from telling users why.
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India’s Gen Z Protests Exposed a New Architecture of Digital Control
Journalists and activists who chronicled the country’s youth uprising say they continue to face the consequences of an online crackdown.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trusted journalism means taking the complexity of international affairs seriously. It’s the standard WPR has held itself to for two decades, and the one we mark on this #WorldNewsDay.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For 20 years, World Politics Review has published rigorous, nonpartisan analysis of global affairs, written by experts who know the regions and issues they cover. On #WorldNewsDay, that commitment hasn’t changed.
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GlobalPost @globalpost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On World News Day, a reminder that the next generation is keeping up with the world: roughly 14,000 students and teachers at more than 2,100 schools in 114 countries start each weekday with GlobalPost, for free. #WorldNewsDay bit.ly/46NTtAo
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez was elected on an anti-crime agenda. But her funding cuts to the judiciary she blames for rising violence risk benefiting the very gangs and cartels she vowed to fight, James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social) writes.
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In Costa Rica, Fernandez’s Fight With the Judiciary Puts Her Security Agenda at Risk
The government’s funding cuts for courts and prosecutors could wind up benefiting violent gangs and drug cartels.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Journalists and activists who chronicled India’s recent youth uprising say they continue to face the consequences of an online crackdown, Viren Naidu reports.
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India’s Gen Z Protests Exposed a New Architecture of Digital Control
Journalists and activists who chronicled the country’s youth uprising say they continue to face the consequences of an online crackdown.
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GlobalPost @globalpost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hong Kong has launched its first five-year development plan, borrowing a model China’s Communist Party has used since the 1950s and pulling the famously free-market city’s economy closer to Beijing after years of political crackdowns.
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The launch of Hong Kong's five-year development plan, using a model favored by China, shows a blueprint for a planned economy. Learn more
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In late August, Niger’s junta survived a mutiny fueled by battlefield losses to jihadists and resentment over unequal treatment of troops. Can it purge suspected mutineers without further weakening the army it needs at the front?
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A Rebellion in Niger Underscores the Fragility of the Sahel’s Juntas
Unequal treatment and battlefield losses helped fuel the revolt. Now, the junta’s purge of suspected mutineers risks deepening mistrust.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Should the U.S. pull its forces back from the island chain running from Japan through Taiwan and the Philippines—and if it does, must its alliances there go too? @profpaulpoast.bsky.social weighs a report that has sparked heated debate among strategists:
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Rethinking the U.S. Military’s Footprint in East Asia
A new report about America’s military posture in the region has sparked debate over how Washington should best protect its core interests.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger all seized power promising to restore security. Instead, worsening insecurity is straining their armies to the point of mutiny, most recently in Niger, Tangi Bihan writes.
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A Rebellion in Niger Underscores the Fragility of the Sahel’s Juntas
Unequal treatment and battlefield losses helped fuel the revolt. Now, the junta’s purge of suspected mutineers risks deepening mistrust.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is a case for pulling U.S. forces in East Asia back out of easy range of Chinese strikes. But ending America’s alliances in the region would go too far, risking the loss of vital access for military operations and intelligence gathering.
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Rethinking the U.S. Military’s Footprint in East Asia
A new report about America’s military posture in the region has sparked debate over how Washington should best protect its core interests.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Palestinian Authority hasn’t held a legislative election since 2006, and President Mahmoud Abbas has governed by decree since 2009. A vote planned for November could change that, but the odds are stacked against it, Elfadil Ibrahim writes.
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Palestinians Plan for Long-Delayed Elections Amid Internal Divisions and Israeli Obstruction
Political infighting, Israeli restrictions and years of war are stacking the odds against elections that are planned for November.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Verbal hyperbole and intimidation have long been among U.S. President Donald Trump’s favorite weapons. His speech to the U.N. General Assembly this week showed how much of their firepower they have lost.
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Trump’s Bluster Isn’t Landing Like It Used to
The president’s rhetorical extremes once alarmed global leaders. But his latest U.N. speech showed how their shock value has diminished.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Niger’s junta put down its most serious mutiny since seizing power in 2023. But the revolt exposed how fragile the regime is, and its purge of suspected mutineers risks weakening an army already struggling against jihadists, Tangi Bihan writes.
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A Rebellion in Niger Underscores the Fragility of the Sahel’s Juntas
Unequal treatment and battlefield losses helped fuel the revolt. Now, the junta’s purge of suspected mutineers risks deepening mistrust.
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GlobalPost @globalpost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Italy’s Senate backed PM Giorgia Meloni’s plan to restart nuclear power, a major step toward reversing a ban Italians approved by referendum after the Chernobyl disaster nearly 40 years ago.
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Italy’s Parliament Backs Plan to Resume Nuclear Power After 40 Years
The Italian Senate approved Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s plan to restart nuclear power, nearly 40 years after it was banned.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A new report urging the U.S. to pull its forces back from East Asia and end its alliances there has been widely condemned. But are the report’s recommendations completely off base? Columnist @profpaulpoast.bsky.social weighs in:
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Rethinking the U.S. Military’s Footprint in East Asia
A new report about America’s military posture in the region has sparked debate over how Washington should best protect its core interests.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As foreign support for his administration wanes, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called the first legislative elections in 20 years. Whether Palestinians actually vote in November remains genuinely uncertain.
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Palestinians Plan for Long-Delayed Elections Amid Internal Divisions and Israeli Obstruction
Political infighting, Israeli restrictions and years of war are stacking the odds against elections that are planned for November.
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Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The report is an important read that should lead to some rethinking, if not wholesale changes, in how the US approaches East Asian defense. Link here: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/rethinking-t...
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Rethinking the U.S. Military’s Footprint in East Asia
A new report about America’s military posture in the region has sparked debate over how Washington should best protect its core interests.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to “totally destroy” North Korea made front pages around the world. After a decade on the global stage, his rhetorical extremes have lost much of their shock value, columnist @fridaghitis.bsky.social writes.
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Trump’s Bluster Isn’t Landing Like It Used to
The president’s rhetorical extremes once alarmed global leaders. But his latest U.N. speech showed how their shock value has diminished.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Revisited for WPR’s 20th anniversary: With China’s rise lending new luster to state-led development, and industrial policy no longer a dirty word in the West, will African governments use a moment of crisis to break with the model of the past four decades?
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African Countries Need a New Economic Model
Many countries across Africa are experiencing a debt crisis. But it could be an opportunity to chart a new course on the economy.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Brazil’s Banco Master banking scandal leaves both camps in a bind. The Bolsonaros can attack a Supreme Court they distrust only by highlighting their own ties to the disgraced banker, while Lula must defend the court under scrutiny.
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A Banking Scandal Becomes an Electoral Minefield in Brazil
Fallout from the arrest of a prominent financier has ensnared the Supreme Court and both frontrunners in next month’s presidential election.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Militaries around the world are embracing AI, and unless that comes with better training on how to use it, near-misses caused by people mishandling the technology are likely to multiply, WPR columnist @rikefranke.bsky.social writes.
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AI Really Could End the World—If Humans Don’t First
The public’s imagination has been captured by a doomsday narrative that fails to consider the very real threat of humans misusing AI.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the first time since 2006, Palestinians are scheduled to hold legislative elections in November. But political infighting, Israeli restrictions and nearly three years of war are stacking the odds against the vote, Elfadil Ibrahim writes.
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Palestinians Plan for Long-Delayed Elections Amid Internal Divisions and Israeli Obstruction
Political infighting, Israeli restrictions and years of war are stacking the odds against elections that are planned for November.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At the U.N. this week, Donald Trump raised the prospect of annihilating Iran’s Islamic Republic, denied U.S. munitions shortages and dismissed global warming and AI in one sentence. None of it shocks the way it once would have, @fridaghitis.bsky.social writes.
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Trump’s Bluster Isn’t Landing Like It Used to
The president’s rhetorical extremes once alarmed global leaders. But his latest U.N. speech showed how their shock value has diminished.
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GlobalPost @globalpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: Rebels from Ethiopia’s Tigray region launched a major offensive against the federal government Wednesday, seizing airports and effectively breaking the 2022 peace deal that ended a war that killed around 600,000 people. Get the whole story below 👇
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For WPR’s 20th anniversary, we’re revisiting Liam Taylor’s analysis: The reforms African governments adopted in the 1980s sidelined the state and industrial policy—part of the reason the continent remains so vulnerable to external shocks.
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African Countries Need a New Economic Model
Many countries across Africa are experiencing a debt crisis. But it could be an opportunity to chart a new course on the economy.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Brazil’s Banco Master scandal hits Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro directly, over roughly $12 million from its founder for a film on his father, and President Lula indirectly, by implicating a Supreme Court justice central to Lula’s narrative.
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A Banking Scandal Becomes an Electoral Minefield in Brazil
Fallout from the arrest of a prominent financier has ensnared the Supreme Court and both frontrunners in next month’s presidential election.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 23/09/2026
I don’t think the superintelligence-is-gonna-kill-us claims are scifi. It’s just that I worry even more about human using AI in stupid ways. My latest column for @wpr.bsky.social on last weeks CNN report. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/ai-risks-apo...
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AI Really Could End the World—If Humans Don’t First
The public’s imagination has been captured by a doomsday narrative that fails to consider the very real threat of humans misusing AI.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
With AI, humans risk becoming the source of the error rather than the firewall against it, WPR columnist @rikefranke.bsky.social writes.
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AI Really Could End the World—If Humans Don’t First
The public’s imagination has been captured by a doomsday narrative that fails to consider the very real threat of humans misusing AI.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Germany’s leader is pressing ahead with the reform agenda he set in 2025 despite a run of state election defeats to the far right. Will the months ahead deliver the reset he is banking on, or is this the beginning of the end of his chancellorship?
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Three Signs That Humanity Is Responding to Wake-Up Calls
Three recent events involve powerful shifts in perspective about the relationship among nations, the planet and humanity.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A U.N. resolution on world maps, a push to expand the Outer Space Treaty and resignations by alarmed AI leaders have little to do with one another. Each marks a shift in how humanity understands its relationship to the planet, @charlicarpenter.bsky.social writes.
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The AfD’s Rise Poses a Critical Test for Merz—and Germany’s Political Establishment
Recent electoral setbacks are threatening Merz’s political agenda and leading some in his party to mull cooperation with the far-right AfD.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A debt crisis across Africa could be an opportunity to chart a new economic course—one that breaks with the free-market model many governments adopted in the 1980s, Liam Taylor writes in a piece we’re highlighting for WPR’s 20th anniversary.
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African Countries Need a New Economic Model
Many countries across Africa are experiencing a debt crisis. But it could be an opportunity to chart a new course on the economy.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Weeks before Brazil’s presidential election, the collapse of Banco Master has become an institutional crisis ensnaring the Supreme Court and both frontrunners, Sylvia Colombo writes.
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A Banking Scandal Becomes an Electoral Minefield in Brazil
Fallout from the arrest of a prominent financier has ensnared the Supreme Court and both frontrunners in next month’s presidential election.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fears that AI could wipe out humanity are real, but they’ve crowded out a more immediate danger that we can actually do something about: humans misusing AI. WPR columnist @rikefranke.bsky.social writes:
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AI Really Could End the World—If Humans Don’t First
The public’s imagination has been captured by a doomsday narrative that fails to consider the very real threat of humans misusing AI.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Recent electoral setbacks are threatening German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s political agenda and leading some in his party to mull cooperation with the far-right AfD.
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The AfD’s Rise Poses a Critical Test for Merz—and Germany’s Political Establishment
Recent electoral setbacks are threatening Merz’s political agenda and leading some in his party to mull cooperation with the far-right AfD.
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GlobalPost @globalpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nepal is demanding climate compensation from China, India and the US after glacier-driven floods killed more than 1,400 people and knocked out over 10 percent of its power capacity—a risky ask of two neighbors the landlocked country relies on for trade. Get the whole story below 👇
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Global politics still treats the nation as the basic container of political identity. But WPR columnist @charlicarpenter.bsky.social writes that recent events may be pulling toward the planetary instead.
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Three Signs That Humanity Is Responding to Wake-Up Calls
Three recent events involve powerful shifts in perspective about the relationship among nations, the planet and humanity.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The absence of a shared overarching threat between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan raises doubts about the pact’s mutual defense promise, Simon A. Waldman writes.
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The Mecca Defense Pact and the Limits of Middle-Power Alliances
The absence of a shared overarching threat between Saudia Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan raises doubts about the pact’s mutual defense promise.
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