political-science

The political environment doesn't look good for Republicans right now, but the party could make gains in the many races for governor across the country this November.

French president pitches in for Nikol Pashinyan, who faces stiff challenge from pro-Russia parties in vote next month Emmanuel Macron has made an unabashed pre-election pitch on behalf of Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, saying the country’s destiny lay with Europe. The French president also accused Russia of abandoning Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war that led to Azerbaijan …

How do formal representations displace institutional intent? This paper examines how institutions can appear aligned and high-performing while drifting from their stated purpose. It argues that this condition arises because intent does not enter decision-making directly: to guide action, it must be translated into criteria, metrics, and allocation rules. In this process, what begins as a represen…

The US president’s retribution will be painful for Germany and Nato, but it makes crystal clear just why Europe’s reliance on the US is untenable What began as a spat between Friedrich Merz and Donald Trump over the Iran war is rapidly turning into a historic rupture between Germany and the US. Its significance is hard to overstate. In Germany, the transatlantic falling-out adds to the domestic w…

Russian attack on gas facility in Poltava region kills three energy firm employees and two emergency service workers Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the Kremlin of “utter cynicism” for killing five people in overnight strikes at the same time as seeking a truce so it can stage a military parade in Moscow. Three employees of the state energy firm Naftogaz were killed in an initial attack on a gas …

This paper demonstrates that the concepts of "liberal" and "conservative" are trite, arbitrary, and uncontrollable. They are by no means opposing concepts. Many people hold them as authorities due to the illusion that they are shared concepts. However, these concepts are used arbitrarily, have become established facts, and are now impossible to control. In liberalism, the absence of consideration…

This paper proposes a minimal, non-phenomenological framework for analyzing the state. Instead of treating the state as a predefined entity or a set of attributes, it is approached as a limiting configuration of relations arising under conditions of high relational density and constrained coordination. By reducing the description to relations, their stability, asymmetry, and modes of fixation, th…

Thousands of Afghans who assisted US forces are stuck in limbo in Qatar. Instead of promised resettlement in America, they face an uncertain future in another war-torn country Hasina Nasimi* had been counting down to 27 January 2025, the day she was booked on a flight with her husband and four children, to Denver, Colorado. Her brother, four sisters and mother were already there, rebuilding their…

In an extraordinary episode in U.S. migration history, Los Angeles police stopped fellow Americans from crossing state lines into California.

‘Russia could cease fire at any moment, and this would stop the war,’ Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in sharp criticism of Putin Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised Russia’s “utter cynicism” of launching more attacks on Ukraine while also calling for a short ceasefire enabling it to stage its 9 May Victory Parade in Moscow. In a post on X condemning the latest series of attacks, he s…

The prime minister said the attack in Golders Green is ‘part of a pattern of rising antisemitism’ in the country The next Scottish government will need to make “really difficult” spending decisions soon after taking power, including tackling its large public sector pay bill, senior economists have said. Severin Carrell has the story. Steve Reed , the environment secretary, has been giving intervi…

The Tell Sid campaign promised to make the working man rich, but in reality the selling of public assets made us all poorer In the summer of 1987, as life in Britain was being steadily reshaped by Margaret Thatcher, I landed a temporary job as an electrician’s mate in a steel-drum factory. I was a truly useless assistant, and justified my existence by singing songs to entertain my boss as he work…

Party leader says vote for Labour or Greens in closely run seats will result in Reform victory at local elections Voters in the home counties will “regret it for a long time” if they do not back the Liberal Democrats and wake up to a Reform-led council, Ed Davey has said. The Lib Dems leader has identified five councils – East Surrey, West Surrey, Hampshire, West Sussex and Huntingdonshire – wher…

_Ethics and Politics_ 28 (1):1-13. 2026The aim of this article is to examine and discuss the hypothesis put forth by Ernesto Laclau in his On Populist Reason (2005) that the identity of a group or community is constructed rhetorically through the act of naming, whereby it universalises a particular demand. Conversely, it will be argued that this process serves to reaffirm a pre-existing identity.…

Victory Day was supposed to be an opportunity for Vladimir Putin to project power. Instead, this year’s drastically scaled down parade is exposing Russia’s weakness while revealing Ukraine's strength, writes Peter Dickinson. The post Zelenskyy rains on Putin’s parade: Kyiv and Moscow declare rival ceasefires appeared first on Atlantic Council .

Civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are suffering a surge in human rights abuses committed by Allied Democratic Forces’ (ADF) fighters that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a new report. “I’d Never Seen So Many Bodies”: War Crimes by the Allied Democratic Forces in the […] The post DRC: Rampant ADF abuses against civilians ‘wa…

PM will say responsibility to stand with Jewish communities lies with ‘every one of us’ at event on Tuesday Keir Starmer will call for a whole-of-society response to rising antisemitism on Tuesday, saying that it is not enough simply to condemn the scourge, but people “must show it” through their actions too. Before a roundtable event at Downing Street, the prime minister will call for action on …

Police forcibly broke up protest outside hospital where federal immigration agents took detainee for evaluation Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email New York City ’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani , and other local officials on Monday condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) after federal officers dragged a man out of a hospital building where he had been taken following an arres…

Public opinion and attitude toward certain government policies plays a major role in shaping governance, especially in as politically diverse a nation as India. In recent years, debates have sparked on multiple socio-cultural and economic policies that the government has passed. Therefore, it is crucial to analyse and explore what factors influence citizens to support certain government policies.…

US operation announced as ‘Project Freedom’ dramatically raises stakes in conflict Middle East crisis – live updates The US has launched Donald Trump’s operation to open a route through the strait of Hormuz for hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, in a move that brought the region back to the brink of full-scale war as Iran sought to reassert its blockade. The US operation, whi…