Europe’s focus is on Ukraine and the east – but relations with Africa are as important
By 2050 two in every five children in the world are projected to born in Africa. It is the continent…
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The New Age of Tragedy
Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity and the crumbling of the liberal rules-based order.
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China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy is pushing it closer to Russia
The Chinese ambassador to France said that ex-Soviet states don’t have an “effective status under international law”.
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The EU cannot afford to take sides in the contest between the US and China
Europe’s economy, dependent on global supply chains, is not built for Cold War-style relations.
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The world according to Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin
China and Russia are united in an epic struggle against the West – and their leaders seek nothing less than…
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André Carrilho on 110 years of the New Statesman: “Putin has grown puffier”
The illustrator on working with the magazine since 2014.
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Joe Biden said “America is back”. So why are its foreign allies going their own way?
Former friends to the US are increasingly testing the forms and bounds of the shifting geopolitical geometry.
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The Iraq War exposed the liberal delusion of remaking the world
The fall of Saddam Hussein was not the end that had been promised – it was the image of the…
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