America’s Strategic Assault on Art, Academia, and the Imagination That Sustains Peace Jan Oberg September 29, 2025 The United States once stood as a beacon of cultural audacity—a place where dissent could be beautiful, and beauty and innovation could challenge the present order of things. Its museums, universities, and artists helped inspire a worldwide imagination […]
And of course, they don’t tell their readers Jan Oberg May 7, 2025 The development – or decline – of the Danish daily newspaper Politiken as a quality newspaper in the field of foreign policy pains me. Allow me a personal, somewhat nostalgic introduction. I wrote frequently for Politiken from 1971 to 1994. As a […]
通过联合国改革实现全球民主治理： 面向未来的多极世界 Jan Oberg January 8, 2025 Last year, I was asked by the prestigious “China Investment” Magazine in Beijing to write a longer analysis of my own choice. It would become the cover story in the first 2025 issue. While I have written several things before (a) for China Investment, it was the first […]
Photo © Jan Oberg 2018 Talk at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, September 2010 Johan Galtung 1930-2024 Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen It is a great honor to be on a panel with the Director of CPC-CC Foreign Affairs, the Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, the Editor-in-chief of China Daily, the Dean of the National Office of […]
Jan Oberg March 27, 2024 On March 18, Jan Oberg was a guest on CGTN’s “Dialogue” with Xu Qinduo. The conversation was related to the Global Democracy Forum, which was taking place around the same time ‘live’ in Beijing. Here is the link to YouTube where you can also find a few comments and a […]
Jan Oberg with Ania Konieczek on her YouTube Channel “Through the Eyes Of” On February 7, 2024, I had the great pleasure of being Ania K’s guest on her YouTube Channel. Here is a link to it – and I want you to use the link to access it on YouTube and not here. The […]
Jan Oberg 7 December, 2023 Without being a NATO member, Sweden enters into an extremely far-reaching agreement with the United States, which completely undermines the country’s ability to conduct an independent security policy. Decisions are made without debate and behind the backs of the Swedish people. The official threat perception is fake: Russia will not […]
Kristin Christman, TFF Associate September 20, 2023 Kristin Christman has written a unique analysis of what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. actually stands for and what values he builds his campaign on – to become the next President of the United States. You can read it here on The Transnational. This unbiased presentation – which she […]
Joint demonstration of the trade unions on May Day in Berlin under the slogan Unbroken Solidarity. Photography K.M.Krause via Reuters Anatol Lieven & George Beebe August 23, 2023 Demonizing Russian culture and people only makes peace in Ukraine harder to achieve and plays into Putin’s propaganda A deeply sinister and dangerous tendency has made its appearance in […]
Ger van Elk, Symmetry of Diplomacy, 1975, Groninger Museum Alfred de Zayas July 31, 2023 The blaming game has always been counter-productive. In the UN Human Rights Council, the practice is known as “naming and shaming”, as if the States engaging in “naming” would possess a higher moral authority over those “named”, […]