Paul Gillespie: UK is struggling to choose between competing constitutional models, and that affects usRows over trans rights in Scotland as well as disputes over seemingly technical issues reveal the faultlines in contemporary UK unionisms and nationalismsSat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Ireland and Ukraine: Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History: A path-breaking book that answers pertinent questionsWork opens up fresh perspective on European history and politics, exploring details of conquests, famines and independence movements.Sat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
EU/Asean ties could herald an alternative to world led by US and ChinaStrategic relationship should aim to manage and limit superpower rivalry in their regionsSat Jan 07 2023 - 04:00
World View: Global threats have evolved from crisis to polycrisisWe need new ways to analyse what is happening in a world where challenges no longer fit into neat siloesSat Dec 10 2022 - 04:00
Paul Gillespie: Future scenarios on climate show we aren’t powerless to actExploring a range of potential outcomes, from moderate success to nightmare, is an effective way of giving citizens a sense of agencySat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
US seeks to reassert dominance over Nato and edge back toward a unipolar worldBiden’s apparent vision stands in contrast to the ‘messy multipolarity’ envisaged, and sometimes even welcomed, by the rest of the worldSat Oct 22 2022 - 05:00
Hazardous to infer preferences for Irish unity or UK union from latest NI census Much will depend on new forms of Britishness being floated by Labour and Liberal Democrats who want to keep the union togetherSat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
Impact of China’s impending water catastrophe will be felt around the worldFrom a collapse in food production to the threat of nuclear war, drought in Asia starkly illustrates the dangers of climate changeSat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
Climate is at a tipping point and if we fail to act, we’ll witness the revenge of Lovelock’s GaiaLimitless capitalist growth is incompatible with survival. The choice now facing humanity is starkSat Jul 30 2022 - 00:01
Paul Gillespie: Constitutional reform in Chile could inform United Ireland debateThe fateful choice Chileans face is well worth close Irish attentionSat Jul 02 2022 - 00:00
Best way to end Ukraine war becomes an intellectual and ideological battlefieldUS policy is ambiguous and its endgame uncertain, as European leaders lean towards compromiseSat Jun 04 2022 - 05:00
For Ireland to rapidly align with Nato would be a big mistakeForeign policy must change in the wake of Ukraine, but in a considered fashionSat May 07 2022 - 02:00
Crisis throws up four historical parallels between Ireland and UkraineSimilarities help explain the spontaneous Irish response to Ukrainian sufferingSat Apr 09 2022 - 02:00
China has plenty skin in the game of ending conflict in UkraineXi Jinping fears conflict may spin out of control and frets about its economic impactSat Mar 12 2022 - 02:00
World View: Ireland’s link with colonisation merits focusEmpire is seen as something visited upon us whereas we actually played an active roleSat Feb 12 2022 - 04:00
Europe must be part of the solution to the mounting Ukraine crisisNeutral, decentralised national model could draw on ideas from the Belfast AgreementSat Jan 15 2022 - 02:00
Will gradual reform be enough to combat climate change?Radical thinkers look to targeted sabotage of paraphernalia of the rich to mitigate crisisSat Dec 18 2021 - 02:00
Ireland badly needs fresh thinking on its place in EuropeConference highlights need to address wider issues obscured by preoccupation with BrexitSat Nov 20 2021 - 02:00
Brexit reawakens the sleeping dogs of competing sovereign claimsIs the hard Brexit policy of Britain in the name of sovereignty a more powerful driver of constitutional change than SF nationalism?Sat Oct 23 2021 - 02:00
Australia’s pact with the UK and US worries its neighboursWorld View: Asean countries fear cold war with China will destabilise regionSat Oct 09 2021 - 02:00
What people in the Republic actually think about Irish unificationPreference for five- to 10-year timeframe for a vote on a clear model for unityThu Sept 23 2021 - 00:15
Afghanistan exit and Taliban triumph pose profound questions for EuropeWorld View: Crisis is seen as ‘a disaster with unforeseeable consequences for the West’Sat Aug 28 2021 - 02:00
EU response on NI protocol will depend on UK’s true intentionsPaul Gillespie: Bloc's role as guarantor of Belfast Agreement is now explicitSat Jul 31 2021 - 01:00
Ireland's role on UN Security Council deserves more attention than it getsPolitical access and diplomatic agility will be most called for when State hosts council in SeptemberSat Jul 03 2021 - 00:08
World View: Is competitive tax system worth social dysfunction?Pressure for better public services may prompt radical change in leviesSat Jun 05 2021 - 01:00
State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union – Losing controlMichael Keating argues persuasively that EU membership helped glue the union togetherFri May 14 2021 - 06:00
Trust between Ireland and UK is in short supplyWorld View: But where trust is diminished institutions can compensateSat May 08 2021 - 01:00
Biden’s international tax objectives call for rethink in IrelandDirection of US president’s foreign policy puts State’s relations with EU, UK and US in questionSat Apr 10 2021 - 05:00
Imperial inheritance still dominates international relationsPaul Gillespie: ASEAN nations seek to protect their consensual, informal and respectful diplomacySat Mar 13 2021 - 01:00
US must choose between cold war or coexistence with ChinaWorld View: European states and most US allies in Asia would be more open to engagement with China than Biden would likeSat Feb 13 2021 - 01:01
UK will learn that size matters when it comes to sovereigntyWorld View: Large states in Europe do not recognise how small they are aloneSat Jan 16 2021 - 02:00
Beethoven can give us tools to criticise late capitalismWorld View: Composer’s values can help us to act to change a dissociated worldSat Dec 19 2020 - 02:00
How to hold a referendum on Irish unityPlan must be agreed before any decision made to call referendums in North and RepublicFri Nov 27 2020 - 00:24
Europe should think before renewing the transatlantic alliance with BidenMacron’s vision of a more activist and autonomous Europe is worthy of considerationSat Nov 21 2020 - 02:00
World View: Scottish momentum evidences need for new thinkingScottish independence and Irish unity linked politically by common problemsSat Oct 24 2020 - 02:00
Covid-19 and global warming are symptoms of rapacious capitalismWe are over time on shifting to an economic system that is not only sustainable, but fairSat Sept 26 2020 - 02:00
World View: Ireland is weaker due to Hogan’s departureHe was at the centre of talks between EU, UK and US as an advocate of our interests and concernsSat Aug 29 2020 - 02:00
World View: Trump playing Black Lives Matter and ChinaUS president ‘others’ factions as enemies of state as policy trick for his re-electionSat Aug 01 2020 - 02:00
World View: Ireland weaponised by London in Brexit talksBattles over food, mobility and residence turn international at Border and in seaSat Jul 04 2020 - 01:00
Europe must tread carefully as US-China links deteriorateWorld View: Stronger EU foreign policy needs to match trade and investment ambitionsSat Jun 06 2020 - 05:00
Why contrasting ideas on sovereignty are feeding distrust between EU and UKWorld View: More resilient legal means are now needed to overcome distrust thrown up by BrexitSat May 09 2020 - 05:00
Coronavirus exposes inequality and shows how it can be tackledCan the crisis create a more fair world, or will imbalance of power grow?Sat Apr 25 2020 - 05:00
World View: Geopolitical results of coronavirus will take years to manifestCovid-19 effects on international order overlap with disruption of globalisationSat Apr 11 2020 - 05:00
‘Coronabonds’ row could endanger the European projectDeep solidarity, including a common debt instrument, is needed if euro zone is to surviveSat Mar 28 2020 - 05:00
Coronavirus crisis has been exacerbated by rise in authoritarianism and nationalismWhen multilateral action is needed, xenophobia and self-interest is driving the responseSat Mar 14 2020 - 05:00
Brexit impact on Northern Ireland not as big as we thinkWorld View: Brexit toxic for unionists if it reinforces the North's divergence from the EUSat Feb 29 2020 - 05:00
Coronavirus crisis underlines Europe’s reliance on ChinaWorld View: The outbreak and its effects dramatise the rise of connectivitySat Feb 15 2020 - 05:00
Health and housing crises could be tackled through better local governmentWorld View: Many services can be better delivered locally rather than nationallySat Feb 01 2020 - 09:04
Phil Hogan’s task deepens as trade becomes politicsCommerce shapes EU’s global agenda with Brexit, US, China and Japan as key playersSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
World View: Sluggish climate progress justifies grass roots action2019 witnessed radicalisation of global movements tackling green crisisSat Jan 04 2020 - 01:00
