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Paul Gillespie

Paul Gillespie

The Irish Times

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Moves to address the decadent and dangerous balance of world power must be based on evidence

“China and the United States should be partners rather than rivals; help each other succeed rather than hurt each other; seek common ground and...

04.05.2024 10

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Paul Gillespie

Overworked, older and mostly male: Ireland has Europe’s weakest local government

Local elections take place in the 31 local authority areas of this State on June 7th, along with European Parliament elections and the first vote for...

13.04.2024 50

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The deep problems facing Britain will continue to dog Labour

Dysfunctional is a term widely used to describe Britain and the UK’s political union in the terminal months of this Conservative government. Hopes...

23.03.2024 10

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Messy peace deal may be better option than continuing war in Ukraine

Amid escalating Russian missile attacks and Ukrainian defensive resistance, preoccupations in Europe are about how to channel more weaponry and...

02.03.2024 8

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Is Ireland ‘an unreliable security partner’ to the UK?

The long-standing strategic aspect of British policy towards Ireland is resurrected in a paper from the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange in...

10.02.2024 10

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‘By the way, Nato is dead’: If Trump wins, Europe is on its own

The spectre of a Trump victory in November’s US presidential elections is haunting European Union and Nato policymakers in Brussels. Donald Trump is...

20.01.2024 6

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Like it or not, the Global South expresses a new geopolitical reality

It has been a good year for the Global South. The term refers variously to the world’s poorer and more marginalised states; to their cross-state,...

30.12.2023 8

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is 75 this weekend. But how universal are those rights?

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a...

09.12.2023 6

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The EU must stop delegating the Middle East question to the United States

“We have been far too absent. We have delegated the solution of this problem to the United States. But Europe must become more involved.” Josep...

18.11.2023 10

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Paul Gillespie

Israel-Hamas war offers no easy answers, only difficult questions

Normalisation is the term coined to describe growing political, diplomatic and economic relations between Israel and Arab or Muslim majority states....

28.10.2023 5

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How the US weaponised fibre-optic cables, data centres and the financial system

Globalisation has for a generation been a catch-all term to describe the strengthening economic connections and interdependencies between different...

07.10.2023 40

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Global South is demanding changes to world power structures

Three international summits in a row illustrate the changing patterns of world power and the forces driving them. Demands for more equality from a...

16.09.2023 20

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