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If the polls are even close to correct, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party will win Thursday’s U.K. general election with one of the largest majorities in British history. Survation’s final mega poll released Tuesday gave Labour a majority of 318, winning 484 out of the 650 seats in parliament. …

The rift over the war in Gaza has made the quest for a unified European foreign policy much harder. On May 28, Ireland, Norway, and Spain coordinated their recognition of Palestine in the hope of accelerating a pathway toward a ceasefire in the Gaza War and encouraging other …

Today’s conventional wisdom that economic nationalism and zero-sum strategic competition can coexist with ample international cooperation on existential global issues is an illusion Editor’s Note: The Red Cell series is published in collaboration with the Stimson Center. Drawing upon the legacy of the CIA’s Red Cell—established following the …

Hillary Clinton tried and failed. Now it’s up to another presidential spouse to try and crack the glass ceiling. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests that only one Democratic candidate would decisively trounce former president Donald J. Trump in November—Michelle Obama. Hillary Clinton tried and failed. Now it’s up …

Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh In his seminal work on political parties, French historian and political theorist Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859) classified political parties into two categories: those that mesmerize society with their machinations and those that upend society with their ideas. This dichotomy is especially pertinent today as Jordan …

Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh As the world grapples with the dramatic shifts in global power dynamics, two pivotal events have particularly reshaped the international landscape: the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Russian military operations in Ukraine. These incidents have sparked intense speculation about the decline of American …

When Benny Gantz quit Israel’s emergency wartime cabinet, on June 9th, he did so with some political mudslinging. He and two of his colleagues in the centrist National Unity Party had joined Benjamin Netanyahu’s government immediately after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7th, “even though we knew it …

In The Claremont Review of Books winter 2023/24 issue, the magazine’s editor Charles Kesler published “National Conservatism vs. American Conservatism.” Siding with American conservatism, Kesler offered a respectful critique of National Conservatism, a transnational movement that embraces citizens of several Western nations, many of whom Kesler counts as …

The outcome of the snap elections to the French parliament, to be held in two rounds on June 30th and July 7th, is uncertain.  The complex majoritarian voting system makes it difficult to arrive at precise estimates for the distribution of seats based on standard opinion polls for …