Tag Archives: Foreign Affairs

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 20, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Holiday double issue’

China proved its strengths in 2025—and Donald Trump helped

It was a good year for Xi Jinping

Two months in, the Gaza ceasefire is floundering

The consequences will ripple beyond the Middle East

The Economist’s country of the year for 2025

Which country improved the most this year?

What Novo Nordisk, OpenAI and Pop Mart have in common

All three have suffered the curse of overnight success

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

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 13, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Europe’s populist right’

Can anyone stop Europe’s populist right?

Apocalyptic warnings by mainstream politicians are doomed to fail

More reasons for America’s friends to plan for the worst

A strategy that scorns Europe, bullies Latin America and is vague on Asia

Don’t fear China’s trillion-dollar trade surplus

It is a problem not for the rest of the world, but for China

America’s Supreme Court should strike down Donald Trump’s tariffs

The judges’ credibility is at stake

The battle for Warner Bros is a prelude to the real streaming war

Professionally made shows face tough competition from independent makers

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 ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 6, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How AI is rewiring childhood

How AI is rewiring childhood

The technology presents dazzling opportunities—and ominous risks

Enough dithering. Europe must pay to save Ukraine

America will not. Europe’s security depends on agreeing how to

Syria’s transition has gone better than expected

The president has been a deft diplomat, but must do more reassure Syrians

Chris Waller, not Kevin Hassett, should lead the Federal Reserve

President Trump should choose the technocrat over the partisan

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

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 29, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘What China will dominate next’

What China will dominate next

The country’s high-speed innovation holds lessons for the world

This bodge-it budget does not give Britain what it needs

Without ambitious reform, the country will not thrive

How to avoid an unjust peace in Ukraine

If Ukraine and Europe want to control their destiny they must seize the initiative

Japan’s big-spending Takaichinomics is ten years out of date

In a time of higher inflation, a falling yen and rising bond yields make a noxious blend

Iran’s reformists extend a hand

The West should heed Iran’s call to restart nuclear talks

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 2025 PREVIEW

PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Palantir Infiltrated Britain’ – The government gave Peter Thiel’s firm control over our data. Wil it ever let go?

How Palantir infiltrated the state

At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company

The politics of the potty

Trump’s defecating fighter jet is an emblem of a man in revolt against civilisation

China and the risks of renewables

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 15, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Markets Could Topple The Economy’

How markets could topple the global economy

If the AI bubble bursts, an unusual recession could follow

The hidden risks in Taiwan’s boom

A weak-currency policy is punishing consumers and storing up financial risk

How the exasperating, indispensable BBC must change

Its latest crisis needs to spur reforms to bolster its news division

Mexico’s surprising record on murder

Claudia Sheinbaum’s security strategy is working. She has a mountain to climb

How to avoid Africa’s next war

Pressure from America and its allies can prevent a return to fighting

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 8, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue featuresThe relationship recession‘.

The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world

In good ways and bad

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics

The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

Democrats risk drawing the wrong lessons from one good day

Moderate governors offer a better model than a charming socialist in New York

America should not push other countries to adopt the dollar

More dollarisation would be a double-edged sword