Alexander Clarkson

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social, I look at how polarisation is part of a wider crisis in the role news media play in US political life whose beginnings reach back to the heyday of public affairs talk shows like Crossfire or the McLaughlin Group
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-media-political-polarization/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social, I look at the reasons why Arab states are paralysed in the face of a conflict escalation spiral that is unfolding between Israel and Iran
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/israel-war-egypt-gulf/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I take a look at what the disastrous outcomes of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 can tell us about risks surrounding the Israeli state's current attempt to destroy Hezbollah on Lebanese soil
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/israel-hamas-hezbollah-war/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I look at how Chancellor Olaf Scholz's decision to implement police checks on Germany's borders with EU neighbours is mere political theatre that will neither resolve migration challenges nor help defeat the far right AfD
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-migration-border-patrols/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I take a look at the impact that gains for the AfD and BSW in Saxony and Thuringia's regional elections could have on German politics
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-elections-politics-afd/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I take a look at how protests against authoritarian oligarchs in Georgia are a symbol of how those fighting for democracy in Europe and the wider world need to win the battle for hope
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/georgia-protests-democracy/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I take a look at how the Biden era embodied the final act of the post-1945 transatlantic alliance between the United States and Europe
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/biden-trans-atlantic-alliance/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I take a look at why the EU struggles to exert influence over developments in the Middle East
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/eu-europe-israel-hezbollah-hamas/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I take a look at the long term impact the Ukrainian army's incursion into the Russian region of Kursk might have on relations between Ukraine and Russia
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/russia-kursk-war-ukraine/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I look at how handling the tension between policy processes that take years to get results and the politics of an impatient public that wants results now will be the biggest challenge for the UK's new Labour government
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/uk-election-labour-starmer/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I explore how the successes of the Left are as important a part of the story surrounding parliamentary elections in France as the rise of the Far Right
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/france-elections-left-wing/

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I take a look at how Washington's inability to influence events in Sudan and Myanmar indicate growing limits to US power that will confront Donald Trump or Kamala Harris after presidential elections in November
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-waning-hegemony-global-order/

This week for World Politics Review @wpr@mastodon.social , I take a look at how factors in recent UK history that brought about the collapse of the Tory tradition might also influence the future of an emerging post-Tory Right
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/uk-tories-britain-conservative-party/

This week for World Politics Review @wpr@mastodon.social I take a closer look at how Emmanuel Macron might have underestimated the discipline and guile of the French Far Right
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/france-far-right-macron/

Really enjoyed this lively discussion for the Breaking Britain Podcast with my colleagues Russell Foster and Ben Jones covering the impact a potential change in British government after the 4 July election might have on the UK's foreign and defence policy
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1611550/15249371-the-battle-for-britain-the-impact-of-the-2024-election-on-uk-foreign-and-defence-policy

This week for @wpr@mastodon.social World Politics Review, I take a look at the three strategic delusions that keep leading to policy failures from the European Union when it comes to Syria and the wider Middle East
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/syria-eu-europe-assad/

This week for @wprWorld Politics Review, I take a look at what a post-Tory political order in the UK might look like after elections on 4 July
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/uk-election-tory-party-sunak/