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Geopolitics

War in Ukraine

The unknowable mind: Will Putin risk going nuclear?

The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 killed 70,000 people, but those bombs had just a fraction of the strength of the smallest bombs available to Russia today. The Business Post asked some experts how seriously we should take the Russian leader’s threat to use nuclear weapons in his war with Ukraine
  • Daniel Murrayand
  • Barry J Whyte
  • October 8, 2022

Vincent Boland: A new decade of austerity is looming and we are woefully unprepared for it

Globalisation is in retreat, the tech revolution is slowing down and public debt is rising
  • Vincent Boland
  • May 6, 2022

Dan O’Brien: Thirty years on from The End of History, the world appears to be facing a democratic recession

Francis Fukuyama’s influential 1992 work The End of History proposed that liberal democracy had triumphed over the ‘isms’ of the 20th century. But today liberal democracy faces three challengers: the authoritarian right, the illiberal left and non-democratic regimes imposing themselves on others
  • Dan O'Brien
  • February 20, 2022

Citizens’ Assembly could hold key to Defence Forces’ future

UCD academic Ben Tonra has said a civic forum would be ‘perfect’ to kick-start a national conversation on the role and function of the Irish military
  • Barry J Whyte
  • February 6, 2022

Lucinda Creighton: We need western Balkan states as much as they need us

Unless the EU moves towards their accession, states like Albania and Serbia will become pawns in the political games of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • October 3, 2021

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