
Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of "The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict."
Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of "The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict."
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.
While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.
Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.
European leaders are breathing a huge sigh of relief following the Republicans’ failure to achieve a 'red wave' in the US midterm elections.
The Ukraine crisis shows that the European Union (EU) has a problem with power.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) now underway in Glasgow might conclude with a big international agreement.
The geopolitical story of the last few years has featured Western democracies’ gradual awakening to the realities of an increasingly ambitious and authoritarian China.
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.
The West’s problems are no longer the world’s problems
While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.
Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.
European leaders are breathing a huge sigh of relief following the Republicans’ failure to achieve a 'red wave' in the US midterm elections.
The Ukraine crisis shows that the European Union (EU) has a problem with power.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) now underway in Glasgow might conclude with a big international agreement.
The geopolitical story of the last few years has featured Western democracies’ gradual awakening to the realities of an increasingly ambitious and authoritarian China.
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.
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.