This Cold War is different
While China cannot win a battle against a US-led bloc, President Xi Jinping seems convinced that it can take its place as a great power in a fragmented global order.
Xi Jinping’s Idea of World Order
While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.
The Next Globalisation
Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.
Peak Atlantic Unity?
European leaders are breathing a huge sigh of relief following the Republicans’ failure to achieve a 'red wave' in the US midterm elections.
Europe’s soft-power problem
The Ukraine crisis shows that the European Union (EU) has a problem with power.
Why COP26 will fail
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) now underway in Glasgow might conclude with a big international agreement.
The false promise of AUKUS
The geopolitical story of the last few years has featured Western democracies’ gradual awakening to the realities of an increasingly ambitious and authoritarian China.
September 10, 2023
This Cold War is different
While China cannot win a battle against a US-led bloc, President Xi Jinping seems convinced that it can take its place as a great power in a fragmented global order.
July 9, 2023
Governing a post-Western world
The West’s problems are no longer the world’s problems
April 3, 2023
Xi Jinping’s Idea of World Order
While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.
January 27, 2023
The Next Globalisation
Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.
November 18, 2022
Peak Atlantic Unity?
European leaders are breathing a huge sigh of relief following the Republicans’ failure to achieve a 'red wave' in the US midterm elections.
May 6, 2022
Europe’s soft-power problem
The Ukraine crisis shows that the European Union (EU) has a problem with power.
November 7, 2021
Why COP26 will fail
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) now underway in Glasgow might conclude with a big international agreement.
October 5, 2021
The false promise of AUKUS
The geopolitical story of the last few years has featured Western democracies’ gradual awakening to the realities of an increasingly ambitious and authoritarian China.
December 25, 2020
Five Cheers for 2021
A lot of chickens came home to roost this year. The Covid-19 pandemic was not some random thunderbolt from out of the blue, but rather a man-made “natural” disaster, holding up a mirror to so many of our bad habits and dangerous—indeed, lethal—practices.
September 1, 2019
Will the Iran conflict break the West?
Before the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, this month, it was a toss-up whether the greater disruption would come from US President Donald Trump or British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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