Domestic Politics Archive

China needs to achieve greater economic growth in 2025. President Xi Jinping has no easy options to make it happen.

The coming year brings enormous uncertainty for Latin America. Ultimately, though, the challenges facing the region won’t be solved in 2025.

A positive economic outlook is giving many African countries cautious optimism. But global headwinds in 2025 could easily stall the momentum.

How the EU and U.K. overcome political paralysis to meet pressing challenges will be the dominant theme of European politics in 2025.

Every year, India and Pakistan grapple with a shared, deadly enemy: dense, toxic smog. It won’t get better without cooperation between them.

Protests in Georgia against the country’s democratic backsliding depend on the struggle to sustain hope for a better future.

The leaders of El Salvador and Mexico are popular. Their supporters are conflating that with the strength of democracy in their countries.

Upcoming elections will determine if Germany’s economic model gets the comprehensive reboot it needs.

The U.S. is just the latest country to send diplomats to meet with the new leaders in Damascus, amid a mad scramble for influence in post-Assad Syria.

Ghana’s elections delivered an opposition victory. They also revealed growing disillusionment with the country’s democratic governance.

Germany’s establishment parties are fighting over the past. That may only fuel more instability in the future.

The withdrawal of France’s military from Chad may be popular, but it comes at the risk of regime security for Deby.

Assad’s flight to Russia may be a blessing in disguise, as it could allow for more effective transitional justice in Syria.

President Yoon Suk Yeol has been impeached. But the damage he has done to South Korea in the past two weeks can’t be undone.

The Assad family’s autocratic rule created interwoven challenges for Syrian society. They will now need to be addressed to create any sort of stability in the country.

The Assad regime used its brutal prison system to extort the families of prisoners, impoverishing thousands.

French President Emmanuel Macron named Francois Bayrou as PM, his second attempt to address a political impasse in parliament.