Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

Highly strategic maritime borders

Cécile Marin — 2026-06-30T09:19:02Z

- Gulf / Map, 2026/07 gulf

Humans and tigers: life among the mangroves

Cécile Marin — 2026-06-30T09:18:54Z

- Asia / Map, 2026/07 tigers

The genocide that still haunts Namibia

Clotilde Ravel — 2026-06-30T09:18:33Z

Between 1904 and 1908 colonial troops in German South West Africa killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. Their descendants feel powerless in the face of impending economic upheavals.

- 2026/07 / article

Indonesia: depoliticised injustice

Vedi R Hadiz — 2026-06-30T09:18:32Z

Indonesia's leftwing activists used to believe Reformasi would produce economic policy that was pro organised labour. They're still waiting.

- 2026/07 / article

Where the Ganges and Brahmaputra meet

Bertrand Daugeron — 2026-06-30T09:18:31Z

The Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve is the world's largest mangrove forest. But as rising seas erode the delta, the balance between conservation and human survival is fragile.

- 2026/07 / article, 2026/07 tigers

Military dominance, strategic defeat

Alexander Zevin — 2026-06-30T09:18:28Z

Militarily, the US might be ‘utterly dominant', but that does not guarantee achieving its strategic goals. Iran is only the latest reminder of that.

- 2026/07 / article

The US Democrats' foreign policy dead end

Martin Barnay — 2026-06-30T09:18:27Z

Democratic criticism of Trump's wars in Iran and Israel's assault on Gaza has been cautious, almost procedural. The party remains attached to a foreign policy doctrine that many supporters have abandoned.

- 2026/07 / article

Iraq stakes a claim to Gulf waters

Didier Ortolland — 2026-06-30T09:18:26Z

Iraq inherited an awkward geography on independence in 1932 and has spent a century trying to escape it. Now, competing claims to maritime zones and hydrocarbon reserves are reigniting old disputes.

- 2026/07 / article, 2026/07 gulf

The nationalist ideology that binds India to Israel

Camille Auvray — 2026-06-30T09:18:25Z

Once staunchly pro-Palestinian, India under Narendra Modi has forged close ties with Israel that are about more than arms sales: there's a deep ideological affinity between Hindu nationalism and Zionism.

- 2026/07 / article

The Balkans in Europe's waiting room

Jean-Arnault Dérens — 2026-06-30T09:18:23Z

The EU promises the Balkans a bright future within the bloc. Yet enlargement remains stalled while member states profit from the Balkans' skilled labour, mineral resources – and migration control.

- 2026/07 / article