• April 10 2024
  Michael Stott

  Latin America is beating the world at trading insults

  Vicious spats and name-calling are paralysing co-operation across the region

  
• April 9 2024
  Leo Lewis

  Japan’s super train needs democratic force

  The marvel of a new maglev would be even greater if it wins over the public

  
• March 26 2024
  John Reed

  Who gains from India’s endless election?

  Voting across India will take six weeks, stretching the already limited resources of opposition parties

  
• March 21 2024
  Guy Chazan

  Germany’s taboo over Ukraine has been broken

  One speech condemned as ‘appeasement’ has put spotlight on durability of Berlin’s support for Kyiv

  
• March 18 2024
  Michael Stott

  The simple idea behind LatAm’s star economy

  Dominican Republic bucked region’s economic funk despite sharing its island with a failed state

  
• March 12 2024
  Leo Lewis

  Marriage holds key to Japan’s falling births

  Reversing population decline will need more than just economic incentives

  
• February 28 2024
  Leila Abboud

  Macron reaches for ‘whatever it takes’ on Ukraine

  Tougher stance aiming to shake Russia’s assumptions instead highlighted EU divisions

  
• February 22 2024
  Andrew England

  Israel-Hamas hostage talks test US diplomatic heft

  Washington is caught between support for Israel and desire to halt Gaza war

  
• February 7 2024
  Michael Stott

  Bukele’s authoritarianism in El Salvador may prove contagious

  Other policies of the millennial president, such as mass incarceration, are less easy to copy

  
• January 18 2024
  Leila Abboud

  Macron tacks right in search of ‘Old France’

  First elected as ‘neither right nor left’, the president has gradually moved to conservative ground

  
• January 7 2024
  Kana Inagaki

  Will scandal imperil Japanese PM’s bolder defence policy?

  Fumio Kishida transformed Japan’s security strategy but his ratings hit record lows amid slush fund allegations

  
• January 1 2024
  Ben Hall

  Army conscription becomes toxic issue for Ukraine’s leaders

  Neither the Ukrainian president nor his top military commanders want to take responsibility for drafting reluctant fighters

  
• November 14 2023
  Michael Stott

  Oil still looks like an easier bet for Latin America than renewables

  Political risk stymies region’s wind and solar potential while fossil fuels deliver reliable returns

  
• October 31 2023
  Leila Abboud

  Why Marine Le Pen ran to Israel's defence, unlike her father

  Far-right leader seeks to rid her party of its antisemitic past, as far left botches its response

  
• October 28 2023
  Andrew England

  Israel’s move into Gaza marks dangerous new phase in war

  Escalation heightens risks of broader Middle East conflict

  
• October 21 2023
  Bryan Harris

  Brazil is taking worrying steps away from clean politics

  Allowing political parties to buy boats and planes out of public funds is just one of Brasília’s moves away from accountability

  
• October 20 2023
  Nic Fildes

  Why the left stumbled in Australia and New Zealand

  Progressive leaders reel from ballot box defeats after ‘losing touch with core voters’

  
• October 8 2023
  Andrew England

  Audacious Hamas attack is a pivotal moment for Israel

  Jewish state has long prided itself on the ability to pre-empt and crush threats to its borders and people

  
• September 25 2023
  Ben Hall

  Ukraine’s democracy is facing a wartime election test

  Zelenskyy has hinted presidential vote may still be possible next year, alarming civil society groups

  
• September 7 2023
  Christian Davies

  Japan and South Korea’s rapprochement is shakier than it looks

  Tokyo may need to show genuine compassion over forced-labour issue to establish partnership with Seoul that lasts

  
• August 25 2023
  James Kynge

  China hopes expanded Brics will turn world upside down

  The size of proposed 11-country grouping would put G7 in the shade

  
• August 23 2023
  Martin Arnold

  Ireland’s wild data is leaving economists stumped

  Eurozone statistics have been seriously distorted by US tech and pharma groups that found a home in Dublin

  
• July 26 2023
  Bryan Harris

  Lula brings retro playbook to a modern Brazil

  Subsidies for manufacturers and a non-aligned foreign policy are rooted in the former trade union leader’s formative years

  
• July 19 2023
  Martin Sandbu

  The EU is doubled up over riddle of Russia’s euro assets

  The fate of hundreds of billions of euros of Moscow’s money hinges on the intricacies of double-entry bookkeeping

  
• July 18 2023
  Leila Abboud

  Macron’s ‘bonsai army’ needs more money to grow

  France plans to boost defence spending by 40% but will not get many new capabilities