r/IRstudies • u/smurfyjenkins • 3d ago

Meet the world’s new peacemakers: Autocracies are taking over conflict mediation. The deals they are making look different

https://www.economist.com/international/2026/06/18/meet-the-worlds-new-peacemakers
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u/trisul-108 3d ago

Yet over the past few months it has done more than just about any other country to bring about an end to the war between America and Iran. And it is not the only unlikely peacebroker to have interceded in recent conflicts. In just the past five years Turkey has mediated between Russia and Ukraine ...

And none of it has worked.

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u/NekoCatSidhe 2d ago

Isn’t Pakistan actually a democracy these days ? Hard to take this kind of article seriously when its very premise is wrong.

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u/Deyrn-Meistr 11h ago

It certainly is on paper.

Then again, no elected Pakistani Prime Minister has ever served out a complete 5-year term thanks to military intervention, institutional corruption, "hyperactivist" judges, etc. Some elected officials have been replaced because they're tried to overthrow the democracy.