By METEHAN TEKINIRK | There is reason to question whether the EU can preserve its appeal, performance, and role in the face of geopolitical change driven by Chinese ascent, American reevaluation of the traditional transatlantic relationship and free trade, and Russian attempts to capitalize on the gradual disengagement of the US from European security.

By HÉLÈNE B. DUCROS | In a fragmented world, the World Society Foundation was conceived as a loose network where research agendas are shared. It is not a school of thought, does not have a political or theoretical agenda, and does not impose concepts or methods. Instead, it adopts the stance of methodological pluralism, with a strong emphasis on empirical realities and analysis of the making of a global society.

By CHARLOTTE HALPERN | European cities became influential actors in global climate governance not because they offered a universal model to be replicated, but because they pioneered an integrated approach to urban mobility that linked climate, accessibility, and quality-of-life objectives while encouraging experimentation, policy learning, and adaptation across diverse urban contexts.

Translated by OLIVIA BAES and EMMA RAMADAN | And then, suddenly, we understood. This same sun that takes, gives. The sun takes from one place; in another, it gives. It removes, but it supplies. And what had happened was, finally, that it had supplied more than it had removed, thanks to the enormous input from glaciers and the Rhône, the Rhône that was swollen, bloated and overflowing, which had become like milk.

By ROMAN LORANC | Focused on lacustrine wetlands and the vegetation at the water’s edge, Loranc’s photographs convey a quiet and meditative space where natural shapes become geometric abstracts and the stillness of water exists through the movement of plant life, for an overall paradoxical, ambiguous, and solemn landscape.

This month’s recent book recommendations by GlobalEurope editors HÉLÈNE B. DUCROS, NICK OSTRUM, and OKSANA ERMOLAEVA. Read about the history of global practices of caste, the revitalizing of the fascist project by AI, and an Arctic community’s religious conversion as resistance to Russian state control.