The West’s rivals everywhere are exploiting its vulnerabilities
From Africa to Latin America, competing power blocs are gaining from liberal democracies’ stalled growth and lack of focus.
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Pax Americana’s last gasp
The US appears increasingly unable to rein in Israel’s war.
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The case for an Atlantic Union
In a world of great-power rivalry, Europe and America need each other.
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Henry Kissinger’s real triumph
The former diplomat, who has died at age 100, profited for decades by telling clients what they wanted to hear.
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Lapland: a prisoner of geography
Threatened by Russia as well as climate change, Finland’s northernmost region has become a front line of western Europe’s existential…
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Cheap weapons, new wars
Warfare is increasingly about low-tech not high-tech arms – and the US is falling behind.
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Gaza and Ukraine have divided the world into geopolitical tribes
From universalists to Westernists, there are common patterns holding the views on the two conflicts together.
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The empire can’t strike back
The US has finally lost control of the Middle East.
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Progressives dream of tyranny
Millions of young people identify with movements that repress the freedoms they take for granted.
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The talons of empire
Why the world can’t escape from American hegemony.
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Jake Sullivan can’t save the world
President Biden’s foreign policy chief is being overpowered by forces beyond his control.
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The great unravelling
The Hamas pogrom against Israeli citizens was the day when the Western-led international order expired.
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Europe has made itself vulnerable by outsourcing its security
The continent is paying countries on its fringes, democratic and otherwise, to shield its core from all the chaos.
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The challenges and threats for Labour in the world to come
A patriotic and outward-looking Starmer government could rebuild Britain’s alliances and international standing.
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What if China invaded Taiwan?
Keir Starmer has said little about his approach to foreign policy. But if he wins the next election, his premiership…
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Guns, grain, and history
The decline in Polish-Ukrainian relations will determine Europe’s political future.
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The future will be made in America
By sharing leadership with India, the US could fend off the challenge of China.
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Xi Jinping’s death wish
The Chinese leader’s obsession with Taiwan is an unpredictable influence on great power politics.
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The EU’s great power delusions
Predictions that the invasion of Ukraine will breathe new life into enlargement are based on wishful thinking.
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers redux
The 20th century’s most influential history book foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of China. Thirty-five years…
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