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              Mark Malloch-Brown

              • Monday, 30 September, 2024
                Geopolitics
                New challenges put the Bretton Woods institutions at a crossroads

                With the world in fresh crisis, bold action is again needed from the IMF and World Bank

                Bretton Woods Conference 1944
              • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
                Human rights
                The UN can no longer protect human rights by itself

                Authoritarianism is on the march, and crucial entitlements are being rolled back

                A group examines a Universal Declaration of Human Rights poster in 1950
              • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
                Geopolitics
                The west must stop playing the ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan once and for all

                Current policy is harming the prospects of those who need our help most, particularly women and girls

                Afghan women hold placards in a protest to demand their right to education
              • Friday, 7 July, 2023
                Lunch with the FT
                Open Society president Mark Malloch-Brown: ‘Obviously “Lord Global” got that wrong’

                The liberal standard-bearer on George Soros as a father figure, the rise of populism — and the farce of Britain’s honours system

              • Thursday, 12 August, 2021
                Afghanistan
                The world must ensure a democratic future for Afghanistan

                Despite the Taliban advance, a different outcome is still possible. But only if the UN and others take action now

                Displaced Afghans head into Kabul from the northern provinces. As the US and other international forces complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country is on the verge of civil war
              • Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
                China
                China’s tit-for-tat detention of two Canadians is a test

                The world will judge Beijing on its treatment of the men seized after Huawei CFO arrest

                People hold signs calling for China to release Canadian detainees Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig during an extradition hearing for Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou at the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson
              • Thursday, 6 April, 2017
                ReviewLife & Arts
                The lost world of win-win diplomacy

                Donald Trump would do well to heed the foreign policy advice of Anne-Marie Slaughter and Richard Haass

                The State Department’s daily press briefing in Washington, March 2017
              • Tuesday, 8 November, 2016
                ReviewLife & Arts
                Doomed diplomacy: Jeremy Greenstock’s memoir of Iraq

                Mark Malloch-Brown on a long-delayed account of the countdown to war with Saddam

                Then British prime minister Tony Blair (right) in Basra in 2004 with Paul Bremer (centre), US civil administrator in Iraq, and Jeremy Greenstock (right), British ambassador to Iraq
              • Thursday, 6 November, 2014
                beyondbricsMarkets
                Guest post: the UN needs to overhaul its development vision
              • Friday, 1 July, 2011
                ReviewLife & Arts
                When minds take flight

                FT critics offer a wide-ranging selection of the best in summer reading

              • Saturday, 26 February, 2011
                ReviewLife & Arts
                New world disorder
              • Thursday, 24 February, 2011
                Middle East protests
                Taking sides is Obama’s best move

                America must usher out Arab autocrats even when their successors are a gamble, writes Mark Malloch Brown

              • Friday, 20 November, 2009
                The World blogWorld
                Europe’s computer-dating system malfunctions
              • Thursday, 26 July, 2007
                Philip Stephens
                Bush, Brown and a different relationship
              • Sunday, 22 July, 2007
                Terrorism
                UK premier faces pull on special relationship
              • Monday, 2 July, 2007
                World
                Britain under Brown
              • Friday, 29 June, 2007
                Terrorism
                A ‘Stalinist’ big tent?
              • Thursday, 28 June, 2007
                UK politics
                Brown announces new UK cabinet
              • Thursday, 28 June, 2007
                NotebookWorld
                Big tent Brown’s fleeing circus
              • Wednesday, 3 January, 2007
                Global Economy
                UN chief appoints senior aides to top posts
              • Friday, 29 December, 2006
                UK coalition government
                Blair’s critics among New Year honours winners
              • Thursday, 9 November, 2006
                Global Economy
                More power for UN reps urged
              • Thursday, 31 August, 2006
                Terrorism
                Donors pledge $940m to aid Lebanon
              • Friday, 18 August, 2006
                Global Economy
                Bush calls on Paris to commit troops
              • Thursday, 3 August, 2006
                Israel-Hamas war
                Rights group accuses Israel of war crimes
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