The Syrian crucible
Can a new Middle East be fashioned from the ruins of the Assad regime?
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The rise of machinepolitik
In this era of raw power, Labour must find a new statecraft.
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Jordan Peterson’s prophecies
The Canadian thinker’s self-made deity is a symptom of the modern Western malady.
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Postliberalism redux
From their reaction to Trump’s victory, it’s clear that liberals have still failed to learn the lessons of 2016.
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The West will pay a steep price if it ignores Brics countries
If the global bloc can successfully ween itself off the US dollar, we will enter a new global order.
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Georgia’s future depends on the European Union
Admitting ex-Soviet countries into the bloc is critical to Western security.
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Is Vladimir Putin bluffing?
He controls the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. The West can’t easily discount his threats.
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Matt Pottinger: “We are now in the foothills of a great-power hot war”
The former US security official on what a second Trump presidency would mean for China, Taiwan and the West.
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The rise of a new axis
China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are all deeply hostile to the US and its allies – and they could…
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The age of danger
Order is breaking down as the great powers take sides in multiple wars.
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Putin’s fractured world
The Russian president is using the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to divide the West and the Global South.
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The myth of “the West”
Our simplistic attitude to Western civilisation overlooks the global trade and culture that created it.
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The West underestimated Russia
There will be no total victory for Ukraine, but Kyiv’s allies can help halt the Russian advance.
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The West’s magical thinking is sinking in the Red Sea
The US and its allies cannot change reality with air strikes.
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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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The new world disorder
A new binary of opposing powers has emerged, with the forces of chaos ranged against the West.
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The West’s dominance is a dangerous delusion
Hubris and ignorance might prove decisive in its proxy wars in Ukraine and Israel, and in its economic contest with…
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Countries can bear the West’s sanctions – but not its moralising
Even Australia pulled out of trade talks with the EU because it could not subject itself to European finger-wagging.
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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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The West is emulating China
Instead of the People’s Republic becoming more liberal, we have become more authoritarian.
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