Category Archives: Foreign Affairs

The Economist Magazine – January 25, 2025 Preview

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Project 1897’ – The Imperial Presidency….

America has an imperial presidency

And in Donald Trump, an imperialist president for the first time in over a century

Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump

The success of cheap Chinese models threatens America’s technological lead

Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth

Donald Trump’s pursuit of tariffs will make the world poorer—and America, too 

To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world’s grids

Less than 3% of the world’s power is internationally traded—a huge wasted opportunity

The New Statesman – January 17, 2025 Preview

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE (January 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Disruptors’ – Elon Musk, Donald Trump and the hostile takeover of America…

Elon Musk’s hostile takeover

Inside the mind of the billionaire at the heart of American power. By Quinn Slobodian

The question of childlessness

With the fertility rate falling across the West, there is much more affecting parents’ decisions than the economy. By Madeleine Davies

Letter from Los Angeles: My city is burning

The fires ripping through LA show that, here, beauty and danger are two sides of a coin. By Sanjiv Bhattacharya

The Economist Magazine – January 18, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (January 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Trump Doctrine’ – America’s new foreign policy…

Donald Trump will upend 80 years of American foreign policy

A superpower’s approach to the world is about to be turned on its head

Much of the damage from the LA fires could have been averted

The lesson of the tragedy is that better incentives will keep people safe

Rising bond yields should spur governments to go for growth

The bond sell-off may partly reflect America’s productivity boom

The Economist Special Report: ‘The Africa Gap’

Special reports: The Africa gap

THE ECONOMIST SPECIAL REPORT (January 11, 2025): The Africa gap – The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is getting wider, says John McDermott

The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is growing

Africa is undergoing social change without economic transformation

Africa has too many businesses, too little business

African elites should align themselves with their countries’ needs

The African investment environment is at its worst in years

To catch up economically, Africa must think big

Foreign Affairs: A Race To Lead The Quantum Future

Foreign Affairs Magazine (January 12, 2025): How the Next Computing Revolution Will Transform the Global Economy and Upend National Security

Over the last several years, as rapid advances in artificial intelligence have gained enormous public attention and critical scrutiny, another crucial technology has been evolving largely out of public view. Once confined to the province of abstract theory, quantum computing seeks to use operations based on quantum mechanics to crack computational problems that were previously considered unsolvable. Although the technology is still in its infancy, it is already clear that quantum computing could have profound implications for national security and the global economy in the decades to come.

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The New Statesman Magazine – Jan 11, 2025

THE NEW STATESMAN (Janaury 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Great Power Gap’ – Why the decline of China, Russia and the U.S. will unleash a new age of anarchy…

The edge of anarchy

Donald Trump’s second term will hasten American decline, at a time when Russia and China are also in crisis. By Robert D Kaplan

The year ahead: Russia is on course to win the war in Ukraine

How did we get here? By Wolfgang Münchau

The year ahead: Will the Musk-Trump bromance endure?

Now the common enemy, the Democratic Party, has been vanquished, their interests may diverge.By Katie Stallard

The Economist Magazine – January 11, 2025 Preview

Donald the Deporter

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (January 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Donald the Deporter‘….

Donald the Deporter

Could a man who makes ugly promises of mass expulsion actually fix America’s immigration system?

The capitalist revolution Africa needs

The world’s poorest continent should embrace its least fashionable idea

How Labour is failing England’s schools

It is fiddling with what works and not yet dealing with what doesn’t

Get tough with Russian sabotage

Russian-linked attacks on undersea infrastructure are rising

Plastic surgery a go-go

Young customers in developing countries propel a boom in plastic surgery

Oldies behaving badly

Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation

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Foreign Affairs Magazine – January/February 2025

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE (January 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Strange Triumph of a Broken America’…

Stress TestCan a Troubled Order Survive a Disruptive Leader?

By Margaret MacMillan

Trump’s Antiliberal Order

How America First Undercuts America’s Advantage By Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon

How to Win the New Cold War

To Compete With China, Trump Should Learn From Reagan By Niall Ferguson

Who’s Afraid of America First?

What Asia Can Teach the World About Adapting to Trump by Bilahari Kausikan

Foreign Affairs Magazine: The Best Essays Of 2024

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE (December 22, 2024): The top essays of the year include…

The Self-Doubting Superpower

By Fareed Zakaria

America shouldn’t give up on the world it made.

Why Gaza Matters

By Jean-Pierre Filiu

Since antiquity, the territory has shaped the quest for power in the Middle East.

Israel’s Self-Destruction

By Aluf Benn

Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the price of neglect.

Russia Is Burning Up Its Future

By Andrei Kolesnikov

How Putin’s pursuit of power has hollowed out the country and its people.

The Trouble With “the Global South”

By Comfort Ero

What the West gets wrong about the rest.

Commentary Magazine – January 2025 Preview

Commentary Magazine (December 12, 2024) The latest issue features ‘The Anti-Woke King Of Hollywood Lets Loose’ – Taylor Sheridan’s shows explain how and why we got Trump again…

The Anti-Woke King of Hollywood Lets Loose

Taylor Sheridan’s shows explain how and why we got Trump again by Rick Marin

Israel Chose, and the World Changed

by John Podhoretz

The Trumpmoon

by Matthew Continetti

The Times Will Stop at Nothing

by Christine Rosen