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              Geopolitics

              • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
                Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
                Geopolitics? What geopolitics?

                There is a reshaping of the world order. What did markets miss?

              • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
                Leo Lewis
                South Korea’s tumult is a symptom of China-US strife

                As the globalisation-friendly world order fades, its new geoeconomic course is fraught with risk

                South Korea’s main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, bottom center, shout slogans during a rally against President Yoon Suk Yeol at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea
              • Monday, 2 December, 2024
                Gideon Rachman
                The tainted legacy of the Merkel-Obama years

                A failure to respond to Russian, Chinese and Syrian aggression helped to create the unstable world of today

                James Ferguson illustration of Merkel and Obama doing the ‘Pulp Fiction’ dance
              • Friday, 29 November, 2024
                UK foreign policy
                Russian victory in Ukraine would ‘embolden’ Moscow’s allies, says UK spy chief

                Richard Moore warns of impact on Chinese, Iranian and North Korean policies as Donald Trump prepares to take office

                Richard Moore is seen speaking and gesturing with his hands at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                China’s support for Russia has hurt its relations with Europe, say Nordic and Baltic states

                Leaders warn Beijing’s backing for Moscow and the war in Ukraine is having a negative impact

                (Left to right) Latvian foreign minister Baiba Braze, Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Store, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson, Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen, Finnish prime minister Petteri Orpo and Estonian prime minister Kristen Michal stand for a family photo during a meeting at the Swedish prime minister’s summer residence, Harpsund on November 27
              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                Sylvie Kauffmann
                Merkel’s memoir reveals her blind spots on Russia

                What she does not say about Moscow is as significant as what she does say

                Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet on sideline of the Libya summit in Berlin in 2020
              • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
                EU defence
                Tusk calls for naval patrols in Baltic Sea to counter Russian sabotage

                Polish PM urges Europe to act against threats from Moscow without waiting for cues from US

                Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland
              • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
                Edward Luce
                Where Trump could surprise on the upside

                The danger posed by the president-elect lies most obviously at home not abroad

                Donald Trump attends a Nato meeting during his first term as president
              • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
                Chinese ship linked to cable sabotage urged to move into Swedish waters

                Stockholm steps up probe after two lines were cut in Baltic Sea

                Chinese bulk carrier  Yi Peng 3 in the Kattegat, Denmark, on November 20 2024
              • Monday, 25 November, 2024
                Gideon Rachman
                Israel will split the western alliance

                Destroying the International Criminal Court is not in America’s interests

                Illustration of a red Maga cap weighing down one side of the ICC scales of justice, while on the other side is a crowd of people. This is against a blue background with the UN olive tree branches logo
              • Friday, 22 November, 2024
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                The unravelling of the international legal order

                An arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister has exposed divisions among western leaders

                The International Criminal Court in the Hague
              • Friday, 22 November, 2024
                Philip Stephens
                Britain’s national security demands more than a defence review

                As the international order cracks, the nation’s capabilities must adjust to a new world

                Jonathan McHugh illustration of Sir Keir Starmer carrying a huge bomb on his back with many pound sign tags hanging off it
              • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
                Martin Sandbu
                Finding the money to make Europe great again

                Frozen assets and large capital exports should be go-to sources for funding a geopolitical transformation

                Firefighters work at the site where an industrial area was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine
              • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
                The Weekend Essay
                Trump’s victory will change America. But Europe can have a different future

                Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor

                An illustration featuring Trump and two women with writing in the background
              • Monday, 11 November, 2024
                Gideon Rachman
                Trump’s European allies think history is turning in their direction

                Populist nationalists on both sides of the Atlantic share common ideas. But there are tensions just beneath the surface

                James Ferguson illustration of Donald Trump holding on the palm of his hand figures with placards of European right-wing parties.
              • Friday, 8 November, 2024
                News in-depthDonald Trump
                Flattery, distraction and golf: world leaders dust off their Trump playbooks

                Handling the US president-elect’s erratic personality seen as key to future relations with Washington

                Montage featuring Andrzej Duda Giorgia Meloni, Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron in front of the US flag
              • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
                News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
                ‘Brave new world’: Trump’s victory signals end of US-led postwar order

                Election result throws multinational policymaking into disarray

                Montage of Donald Trump and a digital map of the world
              • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
                EU foreign policy
                EU leaders strain for unity after Trump win and German crisis

                Bloc gathers in Budapest at summit hosted by Brussels’ antagonist Viktor Orbán

                Viktor Orbán, right, with Emmanuel Macron, left, at European Political Community summit in Budapest, Hungary on November 7 2024
              • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                Trump’s new world order

                A stunning victory that will radically alter America’s role

                Donald Trump speaks at an election night event in West Palm Beach, Florida
              • Monday, 4 November, 2024
                Gideon Rachman
                Trump, Harris and peace in our time

                The two candidates have fundamentally different views about America’s global role and how to keep the peace

                James Ferguson illustration of Trump and Harris pulling Uncle Sam in opposite directions
              • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
                Bennett Freeman
                US business leaders must voice their fears about Trump

                Defending stability and prosperity is a test of America’s corporate responsibility

                An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of US President Donald Trump gather in front of the Capitol Building in Washington on January 6 2021
              • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
                Gillian Tett
                How Hollywood ran shy of geopolitics

                Film distributors are increasingly wary of anything that might prove controversial

                Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Donald Trump struggling to keep open a movie clacket so it won’t crush him
              • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
                Alec Russell
                How the west should re-engage with the global south

                The erosion of the post-1945 world order requires the UK and its allies to define new forms of multilateralism

                South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a family photo during the BRICS summit in Kazan
              • Monday, 28 October, 2024
                Gideon Rachman
                The west underestimates North Korea at its peril

                Kim Jong Un’s intervention in the Ukraine war reflects a dangerous turn in Pyongyang’s approach to the world

                Illustration of  a nuclear missile standing on the North Korean flag
              • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
                Russian politics
                Putin’s alternative to ‘weaponised’ dollar fails to excite Brics partners

                Russian president targets US financial dominance in struggle to reduce impact of sanctions

                Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi walk together through a doorway during an informal dinner
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