Multi-polar world

Shift in influence from West to East

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The Guardian (International)

Sánchez: Europe’s response to war in Gaza has been a ‘failure’

Spanish prime minister says double standards over Gaza and Ukraine threaten to undermine the west’s global standing
The Guardian (International)

Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Vladimir Putin and Kim…

Trump criticises victory day event as China caps off a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the west
The Atlantic

Putin and Xi Are Holding the West Together

Trump gave America’s adversaries an opportunity they haven’t seized.
The Interpreter

Can Australia rally the Indo-Pacific allies?

Trump's unpredictable foreign policy opens the door for energetic Australian diplomacy to strengthen regional alignment.
The Interpreter

Indonesia at a discount

In a world portrayed as multipolar, Southeast Asia’s largest economy remains bound to the same unipolar logic of coercive…
The Interpreter

ASEAN risks becoming window dressing in a BRICS expansion

Indonesia’s entry to the grouping highlights how smaller nations risk being sidelined by existing power hierarchies.

What makes ‘great powers’ great? And how will they adapt to a…

Great powers rely on military, diplomatic and economic dominance. But in a multipolar world, power has been duluted.

Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why…

The stories of curator Kathleen Reinhardt and provenance expert Lynn Rother show how exclusion can be turned to powerful insight,…
The Interpreter

End of equality and the century of political correctness

From Xi to Modi to Trump, a global shift reflects growing acceptance that not all nations – or ideologies – are equal.
The Interpreter

BRICS in Rio: Bigger, yet emptier than ever

Despite its expansion, internal fractures and absent leaders undermined the group’s influence in Rio.
The Interpreter

Putin’s potato politics exposes the new economics of conflict

Sanctions are biting in a taste of the global food security crisis that climate change will bring for world politics.
The Interpreter

Two months in, what has Pope Leo XIV signalled as his foreign policy…

With influence its main power, the Holy See is seeking to exert a more global reach.
The Interpreter

NATO’s 5% pledge and the quiet drift from the Indo-Pacific

Over the past five years, security ties between the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific have grown closer. But we may be witnessing…
The Interpreter

The shifting vectors of Australia–Europe collaboration

An increasingly unreliable America means states must make their own way.
The Interpreter

Kashmir: The identity crisis at the heart of the three-way…

Rich resources and vital rivers make Kashmir a prize worth fighting for, but neither India, Pakistan nor China will give ground.
The Interpreter

The role for ASEAN in Syria’s restoration

The quiet diplomacy model practised by the Southeast Asian grouping complements efforts by other powers and offers much to gain.
The Interpreter

What year is it in China? Rethinking the timeline of a rising power

China’s international posture reflects not the confidence of a stable hegemon, but the impulses of a nationalist power in…
The Interpreter

Taiwan’s Africa gambit

In a world where power is defined by networks rather than borders, Taipei’s quiet diplomacy is making headway.
The Interpreter

Beijing’s green mirage: How China drives environmental…

Massive commodity imports drive deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia even as domestic policies win international praise.
The Interpreter

No one’s world: The Global South is navigating a post-American order

Global influence no longer flows solely from dominant capitals – and power itself is changing shape.
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