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Our June 2026 edition is online. mondediplo.com/2026/06

Binyamin Netanyahu asserts that his country is fighting a ‘shared war’ in defence of Western values. In France, as elsewhere, it’s a message that has found powerful advocates. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2025/09/04isra…

Postwar West Germany helped build the new state of Israel, and had an important and little-known role in shaping the modern Middle East. But its early efforts to make amends often revealed old sentiments. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2020/05germany…

Relations between Algeria and France, the former colonial power, have often been stormy. With disagreements rooted in their shared past still unresolved, tensions are rising. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2021/11/10alge…

After a landslide election win, Labour’s ratings slumped. Austerity budgets and Thatcherite economics turned many voters to Reform UK, the anti-immigrant party leading the polls. mondediplo.com/2025/09/07uk

Keir Starmer has announced his resignation as UK prime minister. mondediplo.com/2026/06/02uk

The medical language of an ‘epidemic’ and ‘contagion’ that was used to describe the coups that occurred in the Sahel region from 2020 were a sign of anxiety and confusion over what was going on. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2023/09/05niger

In 1997 Labour and the Conservatives together won 73.8% of the vote, compared to 65.1% in 2010 and just 57.4% in 2024. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2026/04/12refo…

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. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2025/05/07china

Between 2012 and 2018, less than two tonnes of cocaine was found across West Africa each year. Between 2019 and 2025 ten times that quantity was seized. mondediplo.com/2026/06/14west…

In 2016 Christopher Steele, a former MI6 operative, compiled a now notorious dossier alleging collusion between Donald Trump and the Kremlin. Its claims proved unfounded. Nevertheless, Steele defends his conclusions in a memoir, Unredacted. mondediplo.com/2026/06/13russ…

The Diploma in Intelligence and Global Threats (DiReM) course at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye – known as the ‘Malotru Diploma’ or ‘School for Spies’ – sets out to train the next generation of French intelligence agents. mondediplo.com/2026/06/12inte…

AI competition with China is driving the United States’ new fusion of military power, industrial planning and private capital. Countries are lining up behind the US strategy. mondediplo.com/2026/06/11us

In the name of Polish-Soviet friendship, the postwar communist regimes long preferred to keep quiet about the ethnic cleansing that led to the disappearance of the Polish and Ukrainian minorities living on either side of their shared border. mondediplo.com/2026/06/10pola…

This month, the Court of Appeal upheld the home secretary’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terror organisation, and four of its activists were sentenced on the basis of a ‘terrorist connection’. mondediplo.com/2026/01/05uk

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. mondediplo.com/2026/06/09pola…

Andy Burnham has won a consequential by-election in the Greater Manchester constituency of Makerfield, taking 55% of the vote. mondediplo.com/2026/06/02uk

ELNET, a pro-Israel lobbying network, presents itself as fostering dialogue but has shifted significantly to the right since its creation in 2007. Nowhere is its influence clearer than in Germany. mondediplo.com/2026/06/05elnet

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first leftwing president, promised reform after decades of violence and inequality. Will his successor, to be sworn in this August, continue his programme or seek to reverse it? mondediplo.com/2026/06/08colo…

After Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary, Tel Aviv lost its staunchest ally in the EU. It may have found a replacement in Slovenia’s new rightwing government. mondediplo.com/2026/06/07slov…

Anti-Zionism is a minority position among France’s Jewish population, but since the assault on Gaza began, it’s grown. For some, resisting the conflation of Jewishness with Israel has become imperative. mondediplo.com/2026/06/06fran…