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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize today for her efforts to achieve democracy in her country.

Mie Hoejris Dahl interviewed Machado for WPR just days before last year’s election.

Read what she said here:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/venezuela-el...
October 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The U.N. may not seem like an obvious partner for any new Middle East initiative, but it has capacities that make it indispensable, Adam Day & Alexander Costy write.

Read more here:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/un-gaza-20-p...
October 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
If you’re in the U.S. or India, you can now set World Politics Review as a preferred source on Google!

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August 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Security will play a more central role in Canada’s upcoming elections. Whoever wins should learn from Justin Trudeau’s mixed record on that front.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/canadas-trud...
January 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It now seems likely that the Trump administration will take a selective but stringent approach to working with UN agencies, sustaining those that it finds useful but discarding those it mistrusts, @richardgowan1.bsky.social writes.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-united...
January 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The M23 rebel group has advanced quickly toward Goma, eastern Congo’s largest city, in recent weeks, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

Read more in today’s Daily Review:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/congo-m23-mi...
January 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Biden said he will lift Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, a move that highlights his extremely cautious—and, in effect, hardline—approach to US-Cuba policy over the last four years.

Read more in today’s Daily Review:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/cuba-us-biden/
January 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
After the fall of the Assad regime, Germany is once again debating the status of nearly 1 million Syrians in the country.

Their fate will likely be decided by Germany’s upcoming elections.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-elec...
January 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Jimmy Carter’s presidency epitomized a values-based foreign policy for the United States—for better and for worse.

Columnist @profpaulpoast.bsky.social writes:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/jimmy-carter...
January 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Along Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala, migrants are piling up in the thousands.

The reason why is no mystery: Mexican authorities, in no small part due to the insistence of Washington, are stopping, delaying and detaining record numbers of them.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/mexico-us-mi...
January 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
President Marcos has definitively aligned the Philippines with the US and downgraded ties with China. It was a huge risk, and the return of Trump the White House might now leave him and the Philippines out in the cold.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/philippines-...
December 20, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Why does war persist? As @profpaulpoast.bsky.social‬ writes, the persistence of war appears to be related to a hard truth: We live on a planet that is finite in land and space.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/war-conflict...
December 20, 2024 at 7:29 PM
The fall of Assad in Syria was nothing short of astounding. How did it happen? And what happens next?

WPR’s new in-depth report includes 34 pages of expert analysis on post-Assad Syria and what is next for the country.

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December 19, 2024 at 6:55 PM
The sudden collapse of the Assad regime has created an unexpected opening for diplomats to strike a more constructive tone in New York, @richardgowan1.bsky.social & @mayaungar.bsky.social‬ write.

The question is: Will it last?
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/un-syria-ass...
December 19, 2024 at 6:29 PM
China announced modest changes to its visa-free travel program, part of a broader effort to reestablish its struggling tourism industry post-pandemic.

Read more in today’s Daily Review:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/china-touris...
December 18, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Bashar al-Assad’s flight to Russia has rankled those seeking accountability for his crimes.

But as Charli Carpenter writes, political science research suggests that it could actually allow for more effective transitional justice.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/syria-assad-...
December 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The EU and Mercosur have agreed to the final text of a major trade deal.

But as James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social) writes, ratification still faces a lot of obstacles in Europe.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/eu-mercosur-...
December 16, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Rural regions across African states are in the midst of a long transformation, as populations rise and markets thicken.

Government policy needs to catch up, Liam Taylor writes:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/africa-farmi...
December 9, 2024 at 9:23 PM
WPR’s parent company, GlobalPost Media Corp., is seeking a leader for its non-profit Global Education Initiative, which aims to help high school and college students know the world better.

Find out more here:
globalpost.com/careers/#car...
November 6, 2024 at 5:17 PM
🧵 The stakes of the #USelection tomorrow are high for the entire world.

Here’s all our coverage of the how the election could impact different aspects of the global affairs:
November 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
President Kais Saied won a second term in Tunisia’s managed presidential election, a symbolic moment for the country and its democracy.

Read more in today’s Daily Review:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/tunisia-pres...
October 8, 2024 at 3:53 PM
New Zealand heads to the polls tomorrow.

Read Geoffrey Miller’s election preview here: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/new-zealand-...
October 13, 2023 at 5:15 PM