World View: Next government could bring real shifts in Irish foreign policyPost-Brexit and with UN seat, Ireland could find itself wielding real clout on the world stageSat Jan 25 2020 - 01:00
US and Iran remain bound in fatal embraceWorld View: For Washington and Tehran hardliners, peace would be admission of defeatSat Jan 11 2020 - 06:00
Blame our troubles on the 1990s – the decade that never endedThe fallout from the decade of Blair and Clinton continues to shape today’s crisesSat Dec 28 2019 - 06:00
Ireland is not ready for its post-Brexit futureThe UK’s departure will force Ireland to make strategic decisions on its place in EuropeSat Dec 14 2019 - 06:00
Big tech’s bargain: if you want to be online, then give up your rightsWorld View: Tech giants are creating new forms of power and ways of altering behaviourSat Nov 30 2019 - 06:00
Global remittances are the oil that keep globalisation goingMoney sent home by migrants provides a lifeline to some states and props up poor communities in many othersSat Nov 16 2019 - 06:00
Brexit: Remainers should beat a tactical retreat and allow UK to leaveRemain side should then shift to making the radical, positive case for rejoiningSat Nov 02 2019 - 06:00
The painful paradox of Global BritainRuadhán Mac Cormaic: In the coming months and years its contradictions will become painfully apparentSat Oct 19 2019 - 06:00
World View: With friends like the Saudis, Ireland must be waryKingdom’s support for Irish seat on UN Security Council is diplomatically trickySat Oct 05 2019 - 06:00
The end of the Netanyahu eraIsraeli premier will leave behind a deeply fractured societySat Sept 21 2019 - 06:00
Government by ‘Good Chaps’ unlikely to survive much longerBritain’s unwritten constitution badly exposed by cultural civil warSat Sept 07 2019 - 06:00
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: Echoes of Chernobyl cover-up in latest accidentRussia has tried to hide what happened in Nenoksa but it’s impossible in the digital ageSat Aug 24 2019 - 06:00
The Anglosphere is nothing more than a rhetorical wheezeWorld View: Suggestion that likes of US, Australia offer alternative to EU is fantasySat Aug 10 2019 - 06:00
Why we should stop sending politicians to BrusselsTakeover by politicians in recent decades has weakened European CommissionSat Jul 27 2019 - 06:00
World View: The making of Christine LagardePoised to take helm at ECB, French role model has talent for right place at right timeSat Jul 13 2019 - 06:00
How Ireland helped bring Russia in from the coldIrish politicians went against UK in voting for Russia’s return to Europe’s human rights watchdogSat Jun 29 2019 - 06:00
Ireland has quietly joined a dangerous warWorld View: Government is remarkably reticent about its move to send forces to MaliSat Jun 15 2019 - 03:00
How the UK killed Euroscepticism across EuropeWorld View: Far-right populists have quietly shelved their EU exit policies amid BrexitSat Jun 01 2019 - 03:00
Europe's far-right is deeply dividedNationalists are expected to do well in the European election but their ability to coalesce is doubtfulSat May 18 2019 - 03:00
Prolonging Netanyahu’s premiership may come at a cost for IsraelThe economy may be prospering but the country is no closer to addressing its fundamental tensionsSat Apr 06 2019 - 03:00
Mozambique disaster exposes western double standardsA cold snap in Chicago in January drew more commentarySat Mar 23 2019 - 03:00
Algeria’s gerontocracy may have had its dayUnlike in 2011, the Bouteflika regime cannot simply throw money at the problemSat Mar 09 2019 - 03:00
The problem with banishing Shamima BegumWorld View: The UK's decision to revoke the 19-year-old's citizenship is morally flawed and legally dubiousSat Feb 23 2019 - 14:44
The French press and the price of proximityThe media enjoys a very close, if not too close, relationship with politiciansSat Feb 09 2019 - 03:00
Limited ambition of Franco-German Aachen treaty reflects new realitiesIn an EU of 27, France and Germany have less room for manoeuvre than they once enjoyedSat Jan 26 2019 - 03:00
No Child 2020: The project and its five policiesThese policy ideas are starting points in a long-term strategy to eliminate child povertySat Jan 19 2019 - 01:00
A long US goodbye to Syria and Afghanistan makes senseTrump’s chaotic plans are counterproductive but he is right to try to disengageSat Jan 12 2019 - 05:00
The world in 2019: a good year for the pessimistsBrexit activated, Trump unshackled, populism bedded in – it’s a glass-half-empty outlookSat Dec 29 2018 - 05:00
Remainers should not be let off the hook on BrexitWorld View: Remain side is still failing to sell its case despite possibility of a second referendumSat Dec 15 2018 - 05:00
What Tocqueville would make of today’s American landscapeSome of his fears about the durability of US democracy have been realisedSat Dec 01 2018 - 05:00
World View: Ireland must give more than lip service to FrancophonieTransactional logic must link with linguistics as State courts French-speaking nationsSat Nov 03 2018 - 05:00
If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed another battle will be overAs the US supreme court turns inward, the rest of the world is in turn paying less attention to itSat Oct 06 2018 - 05:00
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: Macron shines light on France’s dark pastWorld View: Paris at last starts to face up to state’s torture and murder in Algerian warSat Sept 22 2018 - 05:00
New Zealand may hold the key for post-Brexit IrelandRuadhán Mac Cormaic: We can learn a lot from the Pacific nation’s fate in the 1970sSat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
Kofi Annan era was the UN at its best and its worstDiplomat was last secretary general to seem like a central player in international dramaSat Aug 25 2018 - 05:00
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: How we failed Sierra Leone in Ebola crisis‘Getting to Zero’ starkly reveals local valour in face of West’s superficial aidSat Aug 11 2018 - 05:00
Eight ways to win a UN election: Vote-trading, bananas and ‘lying bastards’A guide to how Ireland can secure a Security Council seat, and what we need to avoidSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Trump cuts US a bad deal in leaving UN Human Rights CouncilWhile rights body is scarred by hypocrisy, US involvement has always been for the betterSat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
How the World Cup reflects – and subverts – the world we live inEncouragingly, political leaders’ attempts to leverage the tournament for personal gain tend to end in failureSat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: Europe’s elites are playing into populists’ handsItalian president’s veto looked like the establishment trying to stymie the will of the peopleSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
There can be no Palestinian state without Palestinian policeRuadhán Mac Cormaic: The EU is helping to rebuild a police force on the West BankSat May 19 2018 - 05:00
Homeless since 1948: 70 years since the creation of IsraelRuqayeh (75) was five when shelling forced her from her village. She has not been backSat May 12 2018 - 06:00
Is Trump being played by Kim Jong-un?World View: History suggests North Korea-US rapprochement destined to failSat May 05 2018 - 05:00
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: Why dictators like electionsSham elections tell autocrats as much about their friends as their enemiesSat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
Inside the mind of Vladimir Putin: two takes on the Russian presidentShaun Walker charts Putin’s mission to fill the Soviet void; Michel Eltchaninoff traces PutinismSat Mar 24 2018 - 06:00
Dublin cleaving closely to EU middle ground on RussiaIrish slow response to Salisbury attack dictated by interests of other EU statesSat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
Anti-Semitism is on the march across EuropeWorld View: Front National’s rebranding masks an alarming rise in anti-Jewish sentimentSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Why Macron will struggle to export his revolutionThe French president is looking for Irish parties to join his new European blocSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
UN envoy warns of Aleppo repeat after scores killed in SyriaViolence in Ghouta ‘spiralling out of control’ as 250 die in government bombardmentWed Feb 21 2018 - 01:00
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: The Middle East peace process is dead not stalledIt is time to plan for a new process once Trump leaves officeSat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
