India Is Deluding Itself: There’s No Multipolar World | Is Russia Trying to Poison Finland’s Water?, and more
America’s place in the world and its ability to get its way unilaterally.
India Is Deluding Itself: There’s No Multipolar World (Rahul Jaybhay, The Strategist)
Despite India’s ardent wish, the world is nowhere close to becoming a multipolar system with India as one of the poles, or centers of power. Instead, today’s global system is best described as partially unipolar and nearing bipolar, with US influence waning and China arriving.
Who Will Fill Europe’s Leadership Vacuum? (Bart M. J. Szewczyk, Foreign Policy)
The recent elections to the European Parliament and French National Assembly shook the political landscape in Europe.
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France Backs Moroccan Claim Over Disputed Western Sahara (DW)
France has backed Morocco’s controversial autonomy plan for the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
In a letter addressed to Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, French President Emmanuel Macron said a proposal to make Western Sahara an autonomous region of Morocco is the “only basis” to solve the long-running conflict.
The Dark Side of Tunisia’s Phosphate Boom (Arlanna Poletti and Sofian Philip Naceur, Foreign Policy)
What is less known is that the prelude to the Arab Spring occurred in Gafsa, where a series of protests in 2008 erupted to demand social justice, transparent public contracts, regional development, and employment in the phosphate sector. Riots were violently suppressed by the Ben Ali regime.
The Kamala Harris Doctrine (Foreign Policy staff)
Now that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has seemingly all but locked up the Democratic nomination for the 2024 presidential race, one of the biggest questions swirling around Washington and foreign capitals is what a Harris foreign-policy doctrine would look like if she is elected in November.
Is Russia Trying to Poison Finland’s Water? (Elizabeth Braw, Foreign Policy)
This summer, mysterious intruders have been breaking into Finnish water towers and treatment plants.
The Deep Roots of Bangladesh’s Crisis (Salil Tripathi, Foreign Policy)
What began in Bangladesh as a mass student protest against job quotas has now morphed into a nationwide uprising against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule.
A U.K. Deportation Plan Cost $900 Million. Only Four People Left. (Megan Specia, New York Times)
The previous British government spent far more than previously announced on a contentious plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, it was announced on Monday.
German Spy Agency ‘Too Short-Staffed to Deal with Russian Threats’ (James Rothwell, The Telegraph)
Germany’s equivalent of MI6 is reportedly struggling with staff shortages, low morale and sickly employees despite facing unprecedented challenges from Russia and other rogue states.
How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter (Andy Greenberg, Wired)
As Russia has tested every form of attack on Ukraine’s civilians over the past decade, both digital and physical, it’s often used winter as one of its weapons—launching cyberattacks on electric utilities to trigger December blackouts and ruthlessly bombing heating infrastructure.
