How the Marshall Plan made Europe
It is 75 years since the US launched its ambitious aid scheme to rebuild postwar Europe and protect it from…
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How Britain’s failure to reckon with global forces led to a cost-of-living crisis
At the end of the era of globalisation and market-led capitalism, there is no clear successor to this crumbling model.
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Striker, shopkeeper, pigeon: what Sweden and Nato should know about Erdoğan
The Turkish president has been moving the goalposts domestically for 20 years. The international community must catch up.
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Dispossession and defiance: how Hong Kong’s struggle explains our world
Two new books on China’s “world city” tell a far richer, more nuanced story than colonialism, then capitalism and Beijing’s…
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Invasion of Ukraine forces a reckoning for the Orthodox world
Putin’s mobilisation of Orthodoxy has only undermined Russia’s authority in the faith it claims to be defending.
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After the Zeitenwende: Jürgen Habermas and Germany’s new identity crisis
The 92-year-old philosopher has warned Germans not to allow anger at Russia and admiration for Ukraine to displace their country’s…
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Can Boris Johnson’s pact with Sweden and Finland compensate for his problems at home?
The Prime Minister has signed mutual security with the two countries due imminently to join Nato – but the economic…
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Putin and Zelensky offer contrasting visions of the future
Increasingly, all the Russian president has to offer is the prospect of a never-ending war.
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