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In ihrem neuen Artikel argumentieren Stefanie Kirchweger und @FranzEder (@PolSciUIBK), dass Nachrichtendienste und deren internationale Beziehungen eine eigenständige Ebene bilden, die parallel zur offiziellen Diplomatie verläuft 💡

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In ihrem neuen Artikel argumentieren Stefanie Kirchweger und @FranzEder (@PolSciUIBK), dass Nachrichtendienste und deren internationale Beziehungen eine eigenständige Ebene bilden, die parallel zur offiziellen Diplomatie verläuft 💡

➡️ https://academic.oup.com/fpa/article/22/4/orag028/8788697?login=true

@uniinnsbruck @fwf

#politics #research #science #forschung #außenpolitik #politicalscience #internationalrelations #diplomacy #foreignpolicy

In ihrem neuen Artikel argumentieren Stefanie Kirchweger und @FranzEder (@PolSciUIBK), dass Nachrichtendienste und deren internationale Beziehungen eine eigenständige Ebene bilden, die parallel zur offiziellen Diplomatie verläuft 💡

➡️ https://academic.oup.com/fpa/article/22/4/orag028/8788697?login=true

@uniinnsbruck @fwf

#politics #research #science #forschung #außenpolitik #politicalscience #internationalrelations #diplomacy #foreignpolicy

In ihrem neuen Artikel argumentieren Stefanie Kirchweger und @FranzEder (@PolSciUIBK), dass Nachrichtendienste und deren internationale Beziehungen eine eigenständige Ebene bilden, die parallel zur offiziellen Diplomatie verläuft 💡

➡️ https://academic.oup.com/fpa/article/22/4/orag028/8788697?login=true

@uniinnsbruck @fwf

#politics #research #science #forschung #außenpolitik #politicalscience #internationalrelations #diplomacy #foreignpolicy

In ihrem neuen Artikel argumentieren Stefanie Kirchweger und @FranzEder (@PolSciUIBK), dass Nachrichtendienste und deren internationale Beziehungen eine eigenständige Ebene bilden, die parallel zur offiziellen Diplomatie verläuft 💡

➡️ https://academic.oup.com/fpa/article/22/4/orag028/8788697?login=true

@uniinnsbruck @fwf

#politics #research #science #forschung #außenpolitik #politicalscience #internationalrelations #diplomacy #foreignpolicy

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan Now Have Their Own NATO

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://jacobin.com/2026/09/mecca-agreement-middle-east-us

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan Now Have Their Own NATO

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://jacobin.com/2026/09/mecca-agreement-middle-east-us

Centre For Economic Policy Research: Tariff confusion. “We construct the new US Tariff Announcement Database (USTAD), which tracks US tariff announcements during 2025. We use USTAD to compute monthly US statutory tariffs and novel measures of tariff confusion by origin country and product: the number of relevant announcements, the number of possible tariff calculations arising, and bounds on […]

Centre For Economic Policy Research: Tariff confusion. “We construct the new US Tariff Announcement Database (USTAD), which tracks US tariff announcements during 2025. We use USTAD to compute monthly US statutory tariffs and novel measures of tariff confusion by origin country and product: the number of relevant announcements, the number of possible tariff calculations arising, and bounds on […]

Centre For Economic Policy Research: Tariff confusion. “We construct the new US Tariff Announcement Database (USTAD), which tracks US tariff announcements during 2025. We use USTAD to compute monthly US statutory tariffs and novel measures of tariff confusion by origin country and product: the number of relevant announcements, the number of possible tariff calculations arising, and bounds on […]

Centre For Economic Policy Research: Tariff confusion. “We construct the new US Tariff Announcement Database (USTAD), which tracks US tariff announcements during 2025. We use USTAD to compute monthly US statutory tariffs and novel measures of tariff confusion by origin country and product: the number of relevant announcements, the number of possible tariff calculations arising, and bounds on […]

Centre For Economic Policy Research: Tariff confusion. “We construct the new US Tariff Announcement Database (USTAD), which tracks US tariff announcements during 2025. We use USTAD to compute monthly US statutory tariffs and novel measures of tariff confusion by origin country and product: the number of relevant announcements, the number of possible tariff calculations arising, and bounds on […]

Business Insider Africa: Decades after colonial-era mapping, Africa’s mineral powerhouse launches $180 million drive with US, France, others to control mineral data. “The push comes decades after Belgian authorities and mining companies conducted extensive geological surveys across the territory during the colonial era. Much of that information remains outside the DRC, including millions of […]

Business Insider Africa: Decades after colonial-era mapping, Africa’s mineral powerhouse launches $180 million drive with US, France, others to control mineral data. “The push comes decades after Belgian authorities and mining companies conducted extensive geological surveys across the territory during the colonial era. Much of that information remains outside the DRC, including millions of […]

Business Insider Africa: Decades after colonial-era mapping, Africa’s mineral powerhouse launches $180 million drive with US, France, others to control mineral data. “The push comes decades after Belgian authorities and mining companies conducted extensive geological surveys across the territory during the colonial era. Much of that information remains outside the DRC, including millions of […]

Business Insider Africa: Decades after colonial-era mapping, Africa’s mineral powerhouse launches $180 million drive with US, France, others to control mineral data. “The push comes decades after Belgian authorities and mining companies conducted extensive geological surveys across the territory during the colonial era. Much of that information remains outside the DRC, including millions of […]

Business Insider Africa: Decades after colonial-era mapping, Africa’s mineral powerhouse launches $180 million drive with US, France, others to control mineral data. “The push comes decades after Belgian authorities and mining companies conducted extensive geological surveys across the territory during the colonial era. Much of that information remains outside the DRC, including millions of […]

https://www.europesays.com/ch/128263/ Will killer robots be banned after a conference in Geneva? #BeatInternationalGeneva #BeatSwissDiplomacy #Diplomacy #ForeignAffairs #Geneva #InternationalOrganisation #InternationalRelations #newsletter #politics #ProductionTypeAdaptation #semiautomated #UserNeedGiveMePerspective

Iran Signals Readiness to Escalate War With U.S. Amid Rising Economic Pressure

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/world/middleeast/iran-war-us-aggression-hormuz.html

Iran Signals Readiness to Escalate War With U.S. Amid Rising Economic Pressure

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/world/middleeast/iran-war-us-aggression-hormuz.html

Iran Signals Readiness to Escalate War With U.S. Amid Rising Economic Pressure

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/world/middleeast/iran-war-us-aggression-hormuz.html

China Rejects Taiwan Independence Claim, Defends UN Resoluti

China has rejected Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s claim that Taiwan is a sovereign independent nation, insisting that the…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #$8bnraillinktoChina #100Taiwanesebusinessmen #africadatasovereigntyconference #China #ChinaTaiwanConflicts #internationalrelations #LaiChing-te #MaoNing #OneChinaPrinciple #Taiwan #UNResolution2758
https://www.europesays.com/3240361/

Bangkok Post – Spain releasing intelligence reports into Ceuta migrant rush

No ‘solid proof’ Morocco planned surge into small enclave, Madrid maintains A Spanish police report leaked last week…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #bordersecurity #ceuta #intelligencereports #Internationalrelations #migrationcrisis #Morocco #Spanishgovernment
https://www.europesays.com/spain/82692/

https://www.europesays.com/africa/416042/ Libya UN Attack: Humanitarian Facility Stormed in Tripoli #CouncilChairs #12Migrants #141MoreNigeriansReturnFromLibya #385TonnesHumanitarianAidToGaza #AdachiomaEzeano #AlAhliTripoli #InternationalRelations #Libya #NorthAfrica

Geopolitics: Challenge to Pacific influence | Featured Columnists

The Asia Pacific region’s geopolitical tensions were on display last week at the convening of the Pacific Islands…
#Politics #australia #China #geopolitics #globalpolitics #internationalrelations #PacificIslandsForum #pacificocean #Palau #politicalstatusoftaiwan #UnitedStates
https://www.europesays.com/3239490/

https://www.europesays.com/africa/415487/ U.S. Sole Nation to Oppose U.N. Resolution Correcting Africa’s Size on World Maps #Africa #AfricanUnion #cartography #EqualEarthProjection #Featured #Geography #GerardusMercator #GlobalPerceptions #Greenland #InternationalRelations #MapProjection #MercatorProjection #RobertDussey #Togo #UNGeneralAssembly #UnitedNations #UnitedStates #WorldMaps

https://www.europesays.com/es/753510/ Al menos 13 muertos en una andanada de bombardeos israelíes en Líbano #ArmedConflict #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Conflict #diplomacy #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #Internacional #International #InternationalNews #InternationalRelations #InternationalNews #LatestNews #LatestNews #News #Noticias #NoticiasDestacadas #NoticiasDestacadas #Politics #Ticker #Titulares #ÚltimasNoticias #ÚltimasNoticias #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/dk/161599/ EU pledges investment, support for Greenland #Arctic #DanishRealm #diplomacy #DonaldTrump #EuropeanUnion #ForeignPolicy #GlobalPolitics #Greenland #InternationalRelations #LeeNational #nato #Nuuk #UnitedStates #UrsulaVonDerLeyen

Canada set to hit back at Trump tariffs, risking wider trade war | Entertainment

Canada is poised to impose tariffs of 15% to 50% on hundreds of products from the U.S. on…
#Canada #EasternAsia #ExecutiveBranch #InternationalRelations #nationalgovernment #northamerica #people #PoliticsandGovernment #Tariffs #taxationandtaxes #Trade
https://www.europesays.com/canada/199529/

https://www.europesays.com/dk/161585/ Only Greenland and Denmark can decide Greenland’s future, says EU chief #Arctic #Danmark #Denmark #EuropeanUnion #Greenland #HandsOff #InternationalRelations #UrsulaVonDerLeyen

EU pledges investment, support for Greenland

European officials stressed Greenland is part of NATO territory, meaning it is covered by the alliance’s mutual defense…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission #Arctic #danishrealm #Diplomacy #DonaldTrump #EuropeanUnion #Foreignpolicy #globalpolitics #Greenland #internationalrelations #lee-national #NATO #NUUK #UnitedStates #UrsulavonderLeyen
https://www.europesays.com/europe/132663/

US, Canada trade war escalates | Agriculture

A breakdown in trade talks between the US and Canada prompted additional tariffs on billions of dollars of…
#Canada #dairy #donaldtrump #economies #economy #export #InternationalRelations #InternationalTrade #tariff #tariffsinthefirsttrumpadministration #UnitedStates #unitedstates–mexico–canadaagreement
https://www.europesays.com/canada/199277/

Where and How Russia is Trying to Weaken Ukraine's Allies

Over 150 incidents linked to Moscow since 2022 highlight the Kremlin's strategies beyond the battlefield.

#EU #Spain #Geopolitics #Security #InternationalRelations

https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-09-06/donde-y-como-rusia-trata-de-debilitar-a-los-aliados-de-ucrania.html

UN Institutions Face Test on Taiwan's Status.

As the UN General Assembly convenes, a pressing question looms: will institutions like the UN assert their authority to interpret their own rules, or will external forces dictate the terms? The fate of Taiwan's status hangs in the balance, tied to the interpretation of Resolution 2758.

https://osintsights.com/un-institutions-face-test-on-taiwans-status?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Geopolitics #Taiwan #UnInstitutions #InternationalRelations #NationState

🌊 Tensions are heating up in the Aegean!

A fresh war of words has erupted between Greek and Turkish media as leaders trade sharp accusations over island sovereignty, military buildups, and maritime borders.

Will the situation de-escalate, or are we heading toward a new crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean?

https://www.thelevantfiles.org/2026/09/greek-and-turkish-media-trade-fresh.html

#Greece #Turkey #AegeanSea #Geopolitics #EasternMed #TheLevantFiles #InternationalRelations

Generation Z in Iran: A Contemporary Perspective
- bssproj
https://socialistproject.ca/2026/09/generation-z-in-iran-contemporary-perspective/
#InternationalRelations #Iran

National Security Archive:

Small Wars Journal: The Faceless War: How Artificial Intelligence Rewrote the Map of Power. “A small number of private technology firms now build the infrastructure on which both military power and the public’s perception of reality depend. Drawing on a 2025 wargaming experiment at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and on the documented information war of the June 2025 […]

The Diplomat: AI Is Lowering the Barriers to China’s Information Warfare Against Japan. “Japan’s Ministry of Defense recently released its 2026 Defense of Japan white paper, once again drawing attention to China’s rapid advances in artificial intelligence and their implications for the regional security environment. Yet the most immediate danger to Japan may not come from AI’s […]

Axios: Apple joins Google in renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America”. ” Apple has changed the label on Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America,’ according to an Axios review of Apple Maps on Tuesday afternoon…. Apple is the second major digital map provider to make the switch. Google did so over the weekend — at least for those in the United States.”

South China Morning Post: 23,000 bronzes, 14 years, 60 volumes: how China is mapping lost heritage held abroad. “Published in April by Shanghai Classics Publishing House, the Collection of Chinese Bronzes in Overseas Collections is the product of a painstaking 14-year investigation. It is also something more: an assembled toolkit for China’s intensifying campaign to reclaim cultural heritage […]

Respect, Not Pressure: Why Some Countries Work With China

尊重而非施压：为什么一些国家愿意与中国合作

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News

Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 1, 2026 — 17:35

China’s relationships are not uniformly bad.

That is an important fact, because it means the problem is not China’s existence. The problem is how China behaves in different settings.

Some countries work with China productively. Some do not. The difference is worth examining.

Where China Succeeds

China tends to do well where the relationship is built around visible benefit, practical cooperation, and predictable terms.

That usually means trade, infrastructure, financing, manufacturing, and access to markets. In those areas, China can be efficient, serious, and results-oriented.

Many governments find that attractive. They do not need ideological agreement to work with China. They need delivery, scale, and continuity.

When China acts like a dependable long-term partner, countries notice.

The Role of Respect

Respect is not a slogan. It is a pattern of behavior.

In practice, respect means understanding that other countries have their own interests, their own domestic politics, and their own limits. It means not treating every disagreement as defiance or every boundary as negotiable under pressure.

Countries are more willing to work with major powers when they believe those powers can tolerate independent decision-making.

That matters especially for smaller states.

A smaller state does not expect equality in raw power. It does expect to retain dignity, room to maneuver, and some confidence that cooperation will not become dependency by another name.

Benefit Without Constant Pressure

China’s best relationships are often the ones where economic cooperation is allowed to stand on its own without being overshadowed by security pressure.

When governments can take Chinese financing, investment, or trade and present it to their own populations as practical and beneficial, the relationship tends to hold.

When that same economic engagement is paired with visible coercion elsewhere, the political cost rises.

The issue is not whether China offers value. It often does.

The issue is whether that value comes attached to uncertainty that makes governments defensive.

Why Some Countries Say Yes

Countries work with China for obvious reasons.

China is large. It is central to regional and global trade. It can build quickly, buy at scale, and finance projects that others hesitate to touch. For many governments, especially those with infrastructure gaps or development pressure, that matters more than rhetoric.

But willingness to work with China does not automatically mean trust in all areas.

It often means compartmentalization.

Governments separate the useful parts of the relationship from the risky ones and try to manage both at once.

That is not strategic confusion. It is strategic adaptation.

The Problem With Pressure

Pressure changes the character of cooperation.

Once a country feels that trade or investment is being overshadowed by political demands, maritime intimidation, or strategic ambiguity, the relationship becomes harder to defend domestically.

Leaders may still engage China, but they do so more cautiously. They diversify partners. They look for backup. They reduce exposure where they can.

This weakens the long-term effect China is trying to achieve.

Pressure can produce compliance in isolated situations. It is much less effective at producing durable goodwill.

The Southeast Asian Lesson

Southeast Asia offers a clear lesson here.

Many states in the region are willing to work with China economically. Few are willing to place their security future entirely in China’s hands. That distinction is not accidental.

It reflects the difference between benefit and confidence.

China has proven that it can be valuable. It has not consistently proven that it can be reassuring.

That is the gap.

Taiwan and the Broader Signal

Taiwan sits in the background of every regional calculation.

Any move to settle Taiwan by force would reshape how other countries interpret all of China’s other relationships. Cooperation that now seems manageable would be viewed through a more dangerous lens.

Projects, agreements, and partnerships would not disappear overnight. But they would be politically reinterpreted.

A country that looks willing to use force in one unresolved dispute will be trusted less in every other sensitive relationship.

That is how regional systems think.

What This Means Going Forward

If China wants more countries to work with it comfortably, then the lesson is not complicated.

Respect works better than pressure.

Predictability works better than ambiguity.

Practical cooperation works better than constant signaling.

This does not require China to give up its interests. It requires China to understand that other countries have interests too, and that stable influence is built by making room for them.

The Bottom Line

Some countries work well with China because China is capable of being disciplined, useful, and respectful when it chooses to be.

That should not be ignored.

It should be studied.

Because the strongest argument for a better Chinese regional strategy is not theory. It is the simple fact that China already knows how to build productive relationships when it decides not to lean on pressure.

This essay is written by Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief of WPS News. WPS News has been active in one form or another on the internet since 2009; for more information, visit https://cliffpotts.org.

If this work helps you understand what’s happening, help me keep it going: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WPSNews

https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-coming-turkish-israeli-struggle-for-supremacy/

Let's hope that this piece has got it all wrong.

#MiddleEast #Turkey #Türkiye #Israel #InternationalRelations #Geopolitics

Terms: All paper counts as currency. No national monopoly. One note equals one trillion real value. Only i convert. ID required.

Offer: One note to each leader. Conditions: Less wars. Good behaviour. End hunger. Clear debt. Build peace.

Accepted privately. Honoured publicly. Anon
#UnitedNations #G7 #WorldGovernment #Diplomacy #GlobalLeaders
#PeaceTalks #InternationalRelations #globalsolidarity

Terms: All paper counts as currency. No national monopoly. One note equals one trillion real value. Only i convert. ID required.

Offer: One note to each leader. Conditions: Less wars. Good behaviour. End hunger. Clear debt. Build peace.

Accepted privately. Honoured publicly. Anon
#UnitedNations #G7 #WorldGovernment #Diplomacy #GlobalLeaders
#PeaceTalks #InternationalRelations #globalsolidarity

Terms: All paper counts as currency. No national monopoly. One note equals one trillion real value. Only i convert. ID required.

Offer: One note to each leader. Conditions: Less wars. Good behaviour. End hunger. Clear debt. Build peace.

Accepted privately. Honoured publicly. Anon #UnitedNations #G7 #WorldGovernment #Diplomacy #GlobalLeaders
#PeaceTalks #InternationalRelations #GlobalSolidarity

Why Many Iranians Are Losing Hope After Six Months of War

When the United States and Israel rained down missiles and bombs on Iran to start their war exactly…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #ali #breakingnews #DefenseandMilitaryForces #DonaldJ #EconomicConditionsandTrends #Inflation(Economics) #Internationalrelations #InternationalTradeandWorldMarket #Iran #khamenei #Mojtaba(1969-) #StraitofHormuz #tehraniran #Trump
https://www.newsbeep.com/709468/

The Inquisitor’s Gavel: Oshiomhole, MOWAA, and the High Cost of Political Spite by Lawson Akhigbe

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/22/the-inquisitors-gavel-oshiomhole-mowaa-and-the-high-cost-of-political-spite-by-lawson-akhigbe/

The Invisible Invasion: Britain’s Immigration Panic and the Arithmetic It Cannot Face By Lawson Akhigbe

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/19/the-invisible-invasion-britains-immigration-panic-and-the-arithmetic-it-cannot-face-by-lawson-akhigbe/

The People Did Vote for Mass Immigration – Through Parliament by Lawson Akhigbe

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/19/the-people-did-vote-for-mass-immigration-through-parliament-by-lawson-akhigbe/