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For decades, the LDP delivered enough prosperity and stability for the Japanese to accept a one-party state. Now, the ideological malleability that long sustained it is turning into something harder.
Japan’s new prime minister raises the stakes
Subscribers // by Emil Pacha Valencia (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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February 4, 2026 at 9:14 AM
For decades, the LDP delivered enough prosperity and stability for the Japanese to accept a one-party state. Now, the ideological malleability that long sustained it is turning into something harder.
Asserting that the Ottoman empire perpetrated a genocide of its Armenian citizens in 1915 remains prohibited under Turkey’s penal code. Denial prevents the state’s founding myth from unravelling.
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Turkey and the politics of genocide denial
Subscribers // by Razmig Keucheyan (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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February 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Asserting that the Ottoman empire perpetrated a genocide of its Armenian citizens in 1915 remains prohibited under Turkey’s penal code. Denial prevents the state’s founding myth from unravelling.
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World leaders are keen to move on from Gaza, to call it a solved problem. But this is not an exception: shelving suffering and erasing ‘awkward’ peoples, has become a defining logic of our time.
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The end of empathy
Subscribers // by Peter Harling (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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February 3, 2026 at 9:46 AM
World leaders are keen to move on from Gaza, to call it a solved problem. But this is not an exception: shelving suffering and erasing ‘awkward’ peoples, has become a defining logic of our time.
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Japan’s postwar constitution renounces war ‘forever’. But with fears that US actions in Venezuela could embolden China to seize Taiwan, Sanae Takaichi could be tempted into a risky game.
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Japan’s dangerous game with China
Subscribers // by Renaud Lambert (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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February 2, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Japan’s postwar constitution renounces war ‘forever’. But with fears that US actions in Venezuela could embolden China to seize Taiwan, Sanae Takaichi could be tempted into a risky game.
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By prolonging a war that cannot be fought without the US, Europe has placed itself squarely in Washington’s hands. At what price?
Europe’s strategic bind over Ukraine
Subscribers // by Hélène Richard (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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February 2, 2026 at 9:01 AM
By prolonging a war that cannot be fought without the US, Europe has placed itself squarely in Washington’s hands. At what price?
The United States has grown wary of longterm occupations. Abandoning the pretence of exporting democracy, the Trump administration has chosen to force existing powers to comply with its rule.
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US: an old-new imperial doctrine
Subscribers // by Gilbert Achcar (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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February 1, 2026 at 3:22 PM
The United States has grown wary of longterm occupations. Abandoning the pretence of exporting democracy, the Trump administration has chosen to force existing powers to comply with its rule.
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Diagram: the four major powers compared.
The four major powers compared
Subscribers // by Cécile Marin (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, January 2026)
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February 1, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Diagram: the four major powers compared.
Brutal repression of protests in recent weeks has exposed an Iranian regime that is almost out of options. And foreign interference is increasing the pressure on national unity and regional stability.
Iran in the eye of the storm
Subscribers // by Marmar Kabir (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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January 31, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Brutal repression of protests in recent weeks has exposed an Iranian regime that is almost out of options. And foreign interference is increasing the pressure on national unity and regional stability.
Donald Trump has staked his capricious claim to Greenland on the grounds of national security, access to minerals – and ‘psychological need’. But behind his fixation lies a neo-imperial mindset.
Why Trump’s Greenland fixation?
Subscribers // by Philippe Descamps (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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January 31, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Donald Trump has staked his capricious claim to Greenland on the grounds of national security, access to minerals – and ‘psychological need’. But behind his fixation lies a neo-imperial mindset.
Diagram: major arms sellers and buyers.
Major arms sellers and buyers
Subscribers // by Cécile Marin (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, January 2026)
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January 30, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Diagram: major arms sellers and buyers.
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‘This is not regime change, but change of behaviour by a regime’
US: AN OLD-NEW İMPERİAL DOCTRİNE
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US: AN OLD-NEW İMPERİAL DOCTRİNE
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US: an old-new imperial doctrine
Subscribers // by Gilbert Achcar (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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January 29, 2026 at 6:17 PM
‘This is not regime change, but change of behaviour by a regime’
US: AN OLD-NEW İMPERİAL DOCTRİNE
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US: AN OLD-NEW İMPERİAL DOCTRİNE
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Donald Trump’s recent actions have laid bare the EU’s weakness. Its leaders’ knee-jerk calls for ‘more Europe’ will only strengthen Washington’s hand.
America unbound, Europe sidelined
Subscribers // by Benoît Bréville (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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January 30, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Donald Trump’s recent actions have laid bare the EU’s weakness. Its leaders’ knee-jerk calls for ‘more Europe’ will only strengthen Washington’s hand.
A largescale war is looming, warn a significant number of Cassandras, politicians, researchers, senior army officers and journalists, based on the chaos of the past year.
World on the brink
Subscribers // by Akram Belkaïd (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2026)
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January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
A largescale war is looming, warn a significant number of Cassandras, politicians, researchers, senior army officers and journalists, based on the chaos of the past year.
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In 2015, US energy use for air-conditioning buildings equalled Africa’s entire energy consumption.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM
In 2015, US energy use for air-conditioning buildings equalled Africa’s entire energy consumption.
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In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’s rightwing populist Freedom Party (PVV) had lost 12 of its 38 seats, but in reality, the Dutch political landscape hadn’t changed all that much since 2023, when Wilders scored his historic triumph.
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Is the Dutch centrist revival an illusion?
Subscribers // by Merijn Oudenampsen (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, January 2026)
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January 18, 2026 at 11:36 AM
In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’s rightwing populist Freedom Party (PVV) had lost 12 of its 38 seats, but in reality, the Dutch political landscape hadn’t changed all that much since 2023, when Wilders scored his historic triumph.
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Seen from China, Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs are misguided and self-defeating, proof that liberal democracy is an ailing system. But it’s not enough for Beijing to just wait for the storm to pass.
(January in the archive.)
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China asks, is this the US’s cultural revolution?
Open access // by Renaud Lambert (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, May 2025)
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January 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Seen from China, Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs are misguided and self-defeating, proof that liberal democracy is an ailing system. But it’s not enough for Beijing to just wait for the storm to pass.
(January in the archive.)
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In his December 1823 message to Congress, US president James Monroe had launched the doctrine that would bear his name. As the Spanish empire collapsed, enticing the British to fill the void, he defied European intervention in the affairs of the Americas.
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Uncle Sam's manifest destiny
Open access // by Maurice Lemoine (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, May 2003)
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January 17, 2026 at 11:18 AM
In his December 1823 message to Congress, US president James Monroe had launched the doctrine that would bear his name. As the Spanish empire collapsed, enticing the British to fill the void, he defied European intervention in the affairs of the Americas.
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Greenland’s Inuit want independence from Denmark, but are keen to preserve their Nordic social model. This creates serious economic challenges for this vast land with a tiny population.
(January in the archive.)
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Greenland is not for sale
Open access // by Philippe Descamps (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, March 2023)
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January 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Greenland’s Inuit want independence from Denmark, but are keen to preserve their Nordic social model. This creates serious economic challenges for this vast land with a tiny population.
(January in the archive.)
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The problem in the Arab world is eliminating political systems that have hindered social and economic development since the 1980s. The main symptom is youth unemployment, in which this region has long held the world record.
(January in the archive.)
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The seasons after the Arab Spring
Subscribers // by Gilbert Achcar (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, June 2019)
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January 16, 2026 at 9:23 AM
The problem in the Arab world is eliminating political systems that have hindered social and economic development since the 1980s. The main symptom is youth unemployment, in which this region has long held the world record.
(January in the archive.)
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Far from being caused by personal rivalry, the conflict in Sudan is rooted in the long history of the region and Sudan’s never-ending economic and social crisis.
(January in the archive.)
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Is Sudan still a state?
Open access // by Gérard Prunier (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, March 2024)
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January 15, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Far from being caused by personal rivalry, the conflict in Sudan is rooted in the long history of the region and Sudan’s never-ending economic and social crisis.
(January in the archive.)
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January’s archives.
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January: the longer view
Open access // (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, January 2026)
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January 15, 2026 at 9:45 AM
January’s archives.
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Since the Monroe Doctrine was first articulated , the Chinese threat has replaced the European one in the White House's eyes, and Latin American ‘communist’ and ‘narcoterrorist’ states are regarded as responsible for ‘flagrant cases of wrongdoing’.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Since the Monroe Doctrine was first articulated , the Chinese threat has replaced the European one in the White House's eyes, and Latin American ‘communist’ and ‘narcoterrorist’ states are regarded as responsible for ‘flagrant cases of wrongdoing’.
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In the Ukraine war, western Donetsk has taken on an importance far beyond its strategic value. With neither side ready to pay the political price of yielding, the deadlock risks dangerous escalation.
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Donbas: the ground neither side will cede
Subscribers // by Anatol Lieven (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, January 2026)
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January 13, 2026 at 5:31 PM
In the Ukraine war, western Donetsk has taken on an importance far beyond its strategic value. With neither side ready to pay the political price of yielding, the deadlock risks dangerous escalation.
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