Welcome to the rules-based disorder
Why geopolitics no longer operates under a common set of rules.
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The West isn’t dying – its ideas live on in China
What the Western world confronts is not the threatening advance of alien civilisations, but its own dark shadows moving through…
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Is Belarus using migrants to wage “hybrid warfare” on the EU?
A spike in migration to Lithuania illustrates the dangers posed to Europe by Alexander Lukashenko’s rogue regime.
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Tokyo 2020: The Covid Olympics
The New Statesman's coverage of the world's first pandemic Games since 1920.
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Why there is no solution to our age of crisis without China
For decades, the West has ignored the significance of China's rise – but we must recognise that it will be instrumental…
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Homophobic violence shows the rise of illiberalism in Georgia
Many in the country see terrified LGBT Georgians and a dead journalist as having paid the price for the government’s failure…
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As the Mediterranean’s migrant tragedy deepens, Europe looks away
A first-hand account from one of the few migrant rescue boats still in operation in the Mediterranean reveals the extent…
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In Cuba and Haiti, US policy should seek first to do no harm
A long history of US intervention in Latin America cannot be separated from the current crises.
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