It was an early Friday in Vienna. The autumn chill was slowly making its presence felt, and with a hot coffee in hand, I waited for the train that would take me to Budapest, crossing the border betwee...

The U.S. military mobilization near Venezuela reflects a renewed effort to pressure left-wing governments in the region. The response of the Venezuelan armed forces highlights rising tensions and the...

“As we were saying in our last class” was the sentence with which Gaetano Salvemini, political scientist and historian from southern Italy, opened his class at the University of Florence on November 1...

During the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly held on 29 October 2025, the institution with the highest degree of global governance representation once again called, by a large majority, f...

In a speech to German business leaders, conservative German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made remarks that were described by the Brazilian media as ‘praising’ his country, suggesting a return to German ‘...

By Nicolas Zupardo Dutra and Cinthya Araújo* The Herculean Challenge of Syrian Reconstruction Although Bashar Al-Assad’s fall on December 8, 2024, generated cautious optimism about the country’s futur...

The Constructivist Analysis of the Israel-Gaza Conflict in 2025: Peace Discourse versus the Historical and Geopolitical Reality of Expansion and Systemic Violence. n International Relations, conflicts...

In the last column… In the last column, of the same name but Part I, we discussed the reasons for simplifying all dictatorships under the single label of “dictatorships,” how such simplification can b...

By Débora Guedes Falcão and Cinthya Araújo* This column analyzes the latest developments in the relationship between the United States and Venezuela, which entered a new chapter in recent weeks as the...

The proposal In one of my first columns for DPolitik, aptly titled “Is Dictatorship Pop(?)” (references below), I briefly touched on the topic of the variety of dictatorships around the world. But thi...