When the ‘World’s Cop’ drops the rulebook
The end of an order and the scramble for what’s next?
BEJING REVIEW MAGAZINE – JANUARY 22, 2026
Tag Archives: Foreign Affairs
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JANUARY 17, 2026 PREVIEW
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Horror in Iran’…
What the collapse of Iran’s regime would mean
Thousands have died and America has threatened to strike back against the horror there
America’s gunboat capitalism will make the world poorer
And Donald Trump’s use of companies as a tool of state will make it no safer
A private memo from central banks to governments
You come at the king (of finance),
Without democracy, Donald Trump’s Venezuelan oil quest will fail
Sidelining the democratic opposition and its leader, María Corina Machado, would be a mistake
America has coped with worse things than Donald Trump
Lessons from history for the next three years
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JANUARY 10, 2026 PREVIEW
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Donroe delusion‘…
In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can
That will be bad for America—and everyone else
Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success
Protectionism is failing to revive manufacturing
Does Japan have a “foreigner problem”?
Yes—but it is not what populist politicians say it is
AI is transforming the pharma industry for the better
It is changing the way drugs are discovered and tested
France is paralysed, and everyone is to blame
The budgetary impasse is just one symptom of collective political uselessness
THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JANUARY 9, 2025
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
Fiona Hill: “The UK needs to think of its own sovereignty”
By Megan Gibson
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – WINTER 2026 PREVIEW
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
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JANUARY 3, 2026 PREVIEW
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features The angst over affordability
The truth about affordability
Voters in rich countries are angry about prices. Politicians could make things worse
OpenAI’s cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
There is a dark side to the model-maker’s stunning growth
Cruise-ship catering
How to spend $1.5m on ingredients
Jane Austen, economist
It depends how you count their wealth
The sultans of slang
What street talk reveals about Anglophone civilisation
The origin of dogs
The strange symbiosis between two hyper-predators: humans and hounds
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 Levitsky, Lucan A. Way, and Daniel Ziblatt
The Illiberal International
Authoritarian Cooperation Is Reshaping the Global Order by Nic Cheeseman, Matías 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
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