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Our October 2026 edition is online. mondediplo.com/2026/10
Lula has won the second round of the Brazilian election with 51.79% of the vote, beating the far-right son of Jair Bolsonaro, Flávio.
The US, which has long held its thumb on the scales of Brazilian democracy, has not yet responded to the result.
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The small self-proclaimed state of Somaliland is aiming to become a regional player: it is now an ally of Israel and has commercial and security agreements in the Gulf. Now it’s hoping for US support.
(Now open access.)
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Serbia’s student protest movement has succeeded in unseating Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).
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Nigel Farage is surrounded by scandal and has seen his poll numbers dip. To counter Andy Burnham, Britain’s populist leader marshalled his ‘People’s Army’ at Reform UK’s annual conference last month.
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The situation in the West Bank is increasingly violent. Jewish settlers are seizing and destroying Palestinian property in a campaign of dispossession, actively supported by the Israeli authorities.
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On Sunday 25 October, Brazilians will decide between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, in an election with consequences for the entire continent.
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Many in the West see China as the real victor in the Iran war, with the US’s failures clearing Beijing’s path to global dominance. In reality, it has little to gain from a new world order.
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After two world wars, states divided by ideology nonetheless built a common international order. Faced now with the dangers of climate change, AI and rising militarism, they must find ways to cooperate again.
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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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Since mid-October, the flamingo revolution has taken an insurrectionary turn in Tirana and other Albanian cities, and police violence has injured a growing number of people.
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As major powers jockey for position in the Indo-Pacific, the region’s smaller states face catastrophic climate change.
(October and the archive.)
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Since mid-October, the flamingo revolution has taken an insurrectionary turn in Tirana and other Albanian cities, and police violence has injured a growing number of people.
mondediplo.com/2026/10/07alb…
Faced with a youth uprising, the French government is deploying its full repressive arsenal.
mondediplo.com/2023/05/09pol…
While Saudi Arabia is banking on industrial investment and the UAE on logistics infrastructure, Qatar has gone for luxury tourism to consolidate its international position and diversify its economy.
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In 1991 Albania swapped communist dictatorship for bipartisan factionalism that has often come close to civil war. PM Edi Rama claims his country is booming and wants EU membership; for many Albanians emigration is still their best hope.
(In the archive.)
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The West promised its sanctions package would hit Russia hard without hurting its own people. It’s far from certain that either claim is true.
(October in the archive.)
mondediplo.com/2022/11/03rus…
Russia desperately needs immigrants to supplement its ageing and shrinking workforce. But that’s not the message being sent by its immigration policies and political rhetoric.
(October in the archive.)
mondediplo.com/2025/02/07rus…
Today, even with war raging nearby, millions of Russian tourists still visit Crimea, whose inhabitants increasingly see their future as part of Russia.
(October in the archive.)
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Once a patchwork of peoples, the borderlands of Poland and Ukraine grew increasingly tense before the second world war. The war brought mass displacements that transformed their ethnic makeup.
(October in the archive.)
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