Category Archives: Foreign Affairs

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE-JANUARY 30, 2026

How we escape Trump

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘How We Escape Trump’…

How we escape Trump

By New Statesman

Ice and Donald Trump’s regime of violence

The age of Trump has twisted the American psyche beyond recognitionBy Lee Siegel

Britain needs a Gaullist leader

By Paul Ovenden

How a single call sealed Andy Burnham’s fate

By Ailbhe Rea

The turn to Europe is inevitable

By Andrew Marr

At the Harry Potter studios, I find the last remnants of Britain’s moral authority

By Finn McRedmond

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Is the party over?’ In his first issue as editor, Philip Collins traces the collapse of traditional British political parties—and what happens next. Jen Stout examines what makes a Ukrainian traitor. Plus: behind the scenes of Ralph Fiennes’ operatic debut

How culture wars hurt the economy

Ben Ansell

What makes a traitor?

Jen Stout

Feminists against progress

James Bloodworth

From the heart: Ralph Fiennes and the making of ‘Eugene Onegin’

Fiammetta Rocco

The unknowable Vermeer

Christopher Bray

What would you give up for happiness?

Imogen West-Knights

NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘America At 250’

The Five Greatest Words in the Declaration

Gordon S. Wood

How the founding document made America.

America the Durable

Yuval Levin

How Americans underrate their achievement.

How Religious Liberty Sustained America

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

On the Founders’ first freedom.

What I Learned from the Founders

Richard Brookhiser

On politics, the people, and great men.

BEJING REVIEW MAGAZINE – JANUARY 22, 2026

BEJING REVIEW MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Wheels Are Turning’ – Innovation shifts into motion, reshaping mindset, life and tomorrow….

When the ‘World’s Cop’ drops the rulebook

The end of an order and the scramble for what’s next?

China charts a new course for economic stability

China’s vision for an open world economy in a turbulent era

THE NEW WORLD MAGAZINE – JANUARY 15, 2026 PREVIEW

THE NEW WORLD MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Iran on the Ropes’….

The only path to Iranian revolution

The nation has changed out of all recognition since the Shah was deposed in 1979. There is now only one way that the country can enter the modern world – the state must crack

Trump’s dark age of spectacle and power

A president without decency or any interest in policy runs America like a TV show: gripping its audience with shocks, suspense and relentless action

Can MAGA tech firm Palantir be trusted to run Britain’s data?

It’s wildly overvalued, politically extreme and puts Trump first – but somehow has £1bn of deals to run Britain’s tech infrastructure

The press that thinks it’s the opposition

Westminster journalists are having a tantrum over No 10 briefings. But the real problems are their right wing bias and focus on gossip over policy

The tough guys who learned to love tyranny

For decades, US survivalists have warned about a future with troops on the street and plain-clothes goons disappearing the White House’s enemies. Now it’s all happening under Trump, they are silent

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JANUARY 9, 2025

What Trump wants

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features What Trump wants‘…

The age of invasion

How Trump’s new global strategy will assert Washington’s hemispheric ambitions By John Bew

Why Starmer won’t condemn Trump on Venezuela

Jeremy Corbyn, Clare Short, Robert D Kaplan and others reflect on the consequences of the Caracas attack By Ailbhe Rea

The world after Trump’s Venezuela gambit

By New Statesman

Fiona Hill: “The UK needs to think of its own sovereignty”

By Megan Gibson

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – WINTER 2026 PREVIEW

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FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The World Minus One’ – The emergence of a post-American order.

The World-Minus-One Moment

Managing the global order with an antagonistic Washington. By Amitav Acharya

The Pillars of the Global Nuclear Order Are Cracking

U.S. allies and partners are taking steps toward a post-American nuclear order.Rebecca Lissner,  Erin D. Dumbacher

Can China Replace an Absent America in the Climate Fight?

Beijing never bought the argument that reducing emissions would cause economic harm. Kelly Sims Gallagher

Cyberdefense Enters a Dangerous New Phase

Allies fear that Washington is retreating from leadership at the worst possible time. Rishi Iyengar

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2026

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Strong Are The Strongmen?’

The Weakness of the Strongmen

What Really Threatens Authoritarians? Stephen Kotkin

The Price of American Authoritarianism

What Can Reverse Democratic Decline? By Steven LevitskyLucan A. Way, and Daniel Ziblatt

The Illiberal International

Authoritarian Cooperation Is Reshaping the Global Order by Nic CheesemanMatías Bianchi, and Jennifer Cyr

How China Wins the Future

Beijing’s Strategy to Seize the New Frontiers of Power by Elizabeth Economy

PREVIEW: THE EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE – WINTER ’25

THE EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE: The latest issue features a section on the life and work of Spanish political thinker, Dalmacio Negro Pavón; – an interview with Curtis Yarvin; – a defense of The Camp of the Saints; – a review of The Golden Thread; – a tribute to Iryna Zarutska; – and much, much more.


Big Europe Has Lost the War Over Ukraine

The EU’s claim to be a global power player stands exposed as the fantasies of an ageing pretender.

Virtue and Defiance Can Stir Even the Darkest Ideologues

The martyred young risked and ultimately accepted death to defend a culture that they believed was worth the sacrifice.

The Anti-Israel Tantrum Threatening To Break Eurovision

Four nations have declared they will boycott next year’s song contest over the inclusion of the Jewish State. Good riddance.

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – DEC. 5, 2025

THE NEW STATESMAN (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Books of the Year’…

The book is dead? Long live the book!

We announce the New Statesman’s fiction and non-fiction books of the year By Tanjil Rashid

What we read when politics has no narrative

There is still much to discover from the great show of life

In the autumn of Salman Rushdie

The author’s late style in The Eleventh Hour, his new collection of fiction, reveals a venerable writer displaced by timeBy Tanjil Rashid

Donald Trump is making peace in Ukraine harder

America’s chaotic negotiations risk prolonging the chaos not ending it By Lawrence Freedman