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By admitting six new members to their informal group, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) may be thwarting its capacity for collective action.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has delivered pro-rich growth

Ghanaian scholar assesses Russia’s role in ECOWAS and speaks of new scramble for Africa

Pakistan is a fragmented nation with a shaky political system, and the focus on Sunni Islam did not forge the desired unity.

Against the backdrop of the global #MeToo movement, a new wave of feminist politics swelled up in Pakistan

Radical groups are instrumentalising the Gaza war for their own purposes and recruiting young people via social media.

A new German primer elaborates how antisemitism has changed in history and how it keeps changing

India’s ruling party, the BJP, has a long history of contempt for the nation’s large Muslim minority

A German sociologist’s systems theory highlights limits of global governance

In the current election campaign India’s prime minister is emphasising identity politics that so far have not resonated much in regions with Dravidian languages.