• March 11 2024
  Alec Russell

  Taiwan’s perilous path in a distracted world

  Subtle threats are accumulating in and around the island’s waters amid persistent US-Chinese tensions

  
• March 11 2024
  InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview

  Forecaster Peter Turchin: ‘The US is in a much more perilous state than Russia’

  Academic’s models predicted 2020 instability. Was it just luck?

  
• March 8 2024
  Viktor Orbán

  Orbán to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago

  Biden administration has complained Hungarian leader views bilateral ties through partisan lens

  
• March 7 2024
  News in-depthNato

  Sweden joins ‘Nato lake’ on Moscow’s doorstep

  All countries with shores on Baltic Sea except Russia are now part of western defence alliance

  
• March 6 2024
  Ryan Neelam

  America, take heed — China is winning the diplomacy race

  Beijing has invested in on-the-ground presence in crucial developing nations

  
• March 5 2024
  The best books of the week

  The Achilles Trap by Steve Coll — how America misread the Middle East

  The Pulitzer-winning journalist compellingly chronicles why four successive US presidents failed to contain Saddam Hussein — with disastrous results

  
• February 29 2024
  War in Ukraine

  Putin warns of wider conflict over Ukraine

  Russian president makes most explicit threat to use nuclear weapons since full-scale invasion

  
• February 26 2024
  Gideon Rachman

  The squawkus about Aukus is getting louder

  The strategic case for the Australia-UK-US pact is sound. But technical and political doubts are growing

  
• February 23 2024
  News in-depthEU defence

  The companies benefiting from Europe’s defence revival

  Weapons makers are boosting production after decades of under-investment

  
• February 22 2024
  Brazil’s Lula ‘persona non grata’ in Israel as Gaza war angers developing world

  Latin American and African nations have been sharply critical of Jewish state

  
• February 20 2024
  Australia

  Australia to build biggest navy since second world war to meet China threat

  Planned upgrade follows defence review that highlighted Beijing’s military expansion in Pacific

  
• February 19 2024
  Gideon Rachman

  The strange loyalty of Putin’s global fan club

  Admirers of the Russian leader may soon lead the world’s three largest democracies

  
• February 16 2024
  The FT ViewThe editorial board

  The security risks that haunt the world

  American power remains crucial for international stability

  
• February 15 2024
  FT MagazineSimon Kuper

  Trump’s awful truth: the US can go it alone

  He intuits something important about Americans. Their scariest enemies are within

  
• February 9 2024
  Nato

  Russia could attack a Nato country within 3 to 5 years, Denmark warns

  Danish defence minister is latest western official to sound the alarm about Moscow’s continued appetite for war

  
• February 8 2024
  Xi and Putin reject US ‘interference’ and pledge industrial co-operation

  Chinese and Russian leaders discuss Taiwan and Ukraine in conversation that underscores determination to counter US

  
• February 6 2024
  Janan Ganesh

  The west shouldn’t beg for its reputation

  Dislike of the US and its allies is often muddled and vexatious

  
• February 5 2024
  War in Ukraine

  War in Ukraine: geopolitics

  Key articles on the geopolitical effects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine

  
• January 30 2024
  Janan Ganesh

  Welcome to the era of the non-state actor

  It isn’t China or Russia who will dominate the post-American world

  
• January 27 2024
  Finland

  Finland to elect president for troubled times after Nato entry

  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put the Nordic country on the geopolitical map

  
• January 24 2024
  The FT ViewThe editorial board

  The world must start to prepare for Trump 2.0

  US allies, especially in Europe, need to begin rethinking security arrangements

  
• January 23 2024
  Martin Wolf

  The dangers lurking in our messy and unpredictable world

  Fragilities in the global economic system are real and must be confronted

  
• January 19 2024
  Janan Ganesh

  The world is better seen from Dubai than from Davos

  The Gulf state city shows that globalisation isn’t so much dying as moving east

  
• January 19 2024
  Skin in the GameStuart Kirk

  Should investors care about geopolitics?

  Everyone at Davos thinks so — they are half right

  
• January 17 2024
  The World 2024

  Democracy under threat in the ‘year of elections’

  About half of the world’s adult population will be entitled to vote — against a backdrop of growing illiberalism

  

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