Domestic Politics Archive

The Dominican Republic has quietly become one of Latin America’s overlooked success stories. Continued success is by no means ensured.

A surge of support for the Green Party in recent local elections provided a hint of new crosscurrents that could become central to U.K. politics.

With little funding available for national-scale climate adaptation, Malawi has become a laboratory for low-cost community-led climate resilience projects.

The Solomon Islands’ new government isn’t a complete break from the past. But it is an opportunity for the U.S. to boost bilateral ties.

After six months of negotiations, four parties have agreed to form a new, decidedly right-wing government. It will be a very weird one.

Led by Friedrich Merz, the CDU are capitalizing on nostalgia for what is increasingly romanticized as Germany’s political “golden age.”

German leaders have maintained their ironclad support for Israel. It’s increasingly putting them at odds with their constituents.

Mexico’s next president must get the country’s relationships with the US, China and Latin America right to succeed domestically.

The outpouring of support for Senegal’s new government has overshadowed one of its major shortcomings: women’s rights and gender equality.

Russia may not need tanks to subjugate Moldova. Instead, the Kremlin can simply interfere in its politics. In fact, it’s already doing so.

Last year’s election could have led to solutions to Thailand’s many ills. Instead, Thai politics are once again in chaos.

Something unfamiliar is spreading in Argentina: optimism. The impact of President Javier Milei’s dramatic economic reforms has exceeded expectations, even as Milei has maintained popular support. But there is now so much enthusiasm that it raises the risk of irrational exuberance, especially given the scale of the challenge ahead.

As working summits go, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s meeting with Libya’s interim prime minister in Tripoli last week seemed like a routine visit. But her meeting a few hours later in Benghazi with the leader of the rival government there underscored the dangers lurking below the surface of the two sides’ calm relations.

In Lebanon, a financial meltdown, state dysfunction and a massive explosion at the Beirut port have submerged the country in crisis for nearly half a decade and left three-quarters of the population in poverty. Now, as 2024 progresses, the Lebanese state’s process of disintegration appears irreversible.

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students come to the U.S. for their higher education, in part to take advantage of a more open political atmosphere. For this reason, the recent campus crackdowns against pro-Palestine protests offer insights into U.S.-China dynamics, but also the challenges facing U.S. universities as they globalize.

Last week, Nicaragua canceled its deal with a Chinese company to build and manage a canal that stretches across Central America, ending a decade-long saga. Despite this development, China’s influence in Nicaragua has never been greater, in large part due to the diplomatic isolation of President Daniel Ortega’s autocratic government.

Last week’s local elections mark the firmest confirmation yet that the ruling Conservative Party is on track to be decimated in U.K. general elections later this year. Many observers blame the party’s decline on its failure to boost public services and economic growth. But it is also the product of deeper structural factors.