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The UN’s Withering Vine: A US Retreat from Global Governance
The Trump administration’s recent announcement of its withdrawal from 66 international organisations has been met with a mixture of alarm and applause. While the headline number suggests a dramatic retreat from the world stage, a closer look reveals a more nuanced, and perhaps more insidious, strategy. The move is less a wholesale abandonment of the United Nations…
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Crisis in Venezuela: Three Scenarios
The US armed forces’ capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is the latest chapter in a very long history of United States military interventions in Latin America and throughout the world. And, as in almost all of the previous cases, this one has opened the way to a prolonged and costly commitment,…
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Reclaiming Attention: From Digital Conflict to Democratic Dialogue
This policy brief poses the question: which human capacities does digital polarisation erode, and why does their erosion matter for democratic life? It references a comprehensive governance architecture developed by Toda Peace Institute, Lisa Schirch’s ‘Blueprint for Prosocial Tech Design Governance and Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy’, which addresses the dynamics of digital…
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Democracy Lighthouse Digest #5
This edition of the Democracy Lighthouse Digest includes a commentary from Larbi Sadiki fifteen…
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The Danger of a Transactional Worldview
On December 4, the Trump administration released its 2025 National Security Strategy, the document articulating America’s approach to global security. That same day, at the newly renamed Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace, the President hosted a ceremony celebrating a ‘historic’ peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Within hours,…
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