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From Prisoner to Brazil’s President-Elect: the Comeback of Lula
“They tried to bury me alive, and I’m here”. That’s what Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, said in a triumphant...
Maddie Small
Dec 1, 2022


FIFA: a legacy of corruption
On November 23, 2010, France’s President at the time, Nicolas Sarkozy, hosted a quaint lunch for four at the Élysée Palace. His guests...
Paree Desai
Dec 1, 2022
Protests in China – a “white paper revolution”?
"White sheets of papers, no faces. There is so much to say that cannot be said. Because big brother is watching and censoring you." This...
Stella Imo
Nov 30, 2022
Kamala Harris: the Recondite VP
The opinions expressed in this article reflect the opinions of its author(s). They do not represent the views of UCL’s Diplomacy Society...
Raya Mahmood
Nov 30, 2022
Synthetic Biology as a Global Weapon in the United States
What is in a ‘revolution’? The revolutions of the eighteenth century in Europe targeted the overthrowing of an ancient feudal system, in...
Anoushka Jha
Nov 30, 2022


Germany: You Have Lost Your Leadership Legitimacy
For the French mainstream media and political elite, the slogan the “Franco-German couple” is a mantra reflecting the belief that...
Lucien Enev
Nov 29, 2022
Sun, Sea and; Spies: the Sino-Australian Pacific rivalry
Calling this year’s Pacific Islands Forum tense would be a huge understatement. The summit in Suva was a chance for Australia and New...
Omar Khan
Nov 17, 2022
Barriers to Influence - Challenges for the United States - Africa Strategy
‘[Africa has] suffered enough of the burden of history [and] does not want to be the breeding ground of a new Cold War’ This quote is by...
Anoushka Jha
Oct 30, 2022
The ‘Ideal’ Indian Foreign Policy Against the Myanmar Military Coup by Anouska Jha
After suffering decades of military rule and economic/ethnic discrimination, the February 2021 military coup in Myanmar only solidified...
Anoushka Jha
Aug 16, 2022
Not Cricket: Imran Khan’s “Last Over” by Aisha Mohamed
‘Pakistan does not deserve Imran Khan’. That’s what my mother had to say when the opposition parties ousted him from power. As the...
Aisha Mohamed
Jul 13, 2022


Narcos Syria: the Middle East’s secret drug war by Omar Khan
At 4AM on 16 January 2022, a Jordanian army captain was killed in a violent gunbattle with armed drug traffickers on the Syrian border....
Omar Khan
Jul 13, 2022


La France Insoumise: The Future of the French Left? By Sergio Inglán
With the French elections coming up the 10th of April and polls starting to air out, the general public has started to elucidate what...
UCL Diplomacy Society
Apr 12, 2022
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