The Trump Effect Takes Europe
Perhaps Trump’s biggest contribution has been to Europe’s political unity.
20 February 2024, 14:00 PM
Has the ‘polycrisis’ overwhelmed us?
Just as social media competes for individuals’ attention, so do global crises.
28 January 2024, 13:26 PM
This Cold War is different
While China cannot win a battle against a US-led bloc, President Xi Jinping seems convinced that it can take its place as a great power in a fragmented global order.
10 September 2023, 10:56 AM
Governing a post-Western world
The West’s problems are no longer the world’s problems
9 July 2023, 07:00 AM
Xi Jinping’s Idea of World Order
While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.
3 April 2023, 11:00 AM
The Next Globalisation
Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.
27 January 2023, 10:24 AM
Peak Atlantic Unity?
European leaders are breathing a huge sigh of relief following the Republicans’ failure to achieve a 'red wave' in the US midterm elections.
18 November 2022, 15:00 PM
Europe’s soft-power problem
The Ukraine crisis shows that the European Union (EU) has a problem with power.
5 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Planning for President Le Pen
After the United Kingdom's unexpected vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump's unexpected triumph in the US
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Trump the ideologue?
Historians may come to see the American actor Alec Baldwin as US President Donald Trump's most useful ally. Baldwin's frequent and widely viewed impersonations of Trump on the comedy show “Saturday Night Live” turn Trumpism into a farce, blinding the president's political opponents to the seriousness of his ideology.
31 March 2017, 18:00 PM
What liberal world order?
After the annus horribilis that was 2016, most political observers believe that the liberal world order is in serious trouble. But that is
4 March 2017, 18:00 PM
The coming Brexit tragedy
This past year changed everything, except how governments think. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the pre-negotiations for Brexit.
26 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Playing defense in Europe
The most frightening periods in history have often been interregnums – moments between the death of one king and the rise
3 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Migration Superpowers
We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own – a republic of the rootless – it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a population of more than 240 million people.
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM