Last week’s G7 meeting in Biarritz was notable for hypocrisy about the Amazonian fires. Brazil’s pyromaniac president, Jair Bolsonaro, is certainly a serious problem and
Around this time of year, many leading military journals will publish a sort of ‘year-in-review’ article, often pointing to new threats and almost always implying
A weakened leader in a powerful country can be a recipe for danger. Donald Trump’s encroaching legal troubles might prove just the time for a
The international politics of escalating tension between Israel and Iran are in flux. In just three weeks, a change in the atmosphere can be measured
Two recent columns in this series examined ISIS’s future after the loss of its caliphate. The group, it was suggested, might in future pursue a threefold course:
The multipronged tensions in the Middle East have disturbing echoes of the immediate post 9/11 period. After the attacks that day in New York and
