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Geopolitics

  • 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
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    What the world thinks of Harris versus Trump

    Strongman leaders around the globe would welcome a victory for the Republican former president

    A James Ferguson illustration of a person with a globe head looking through binoculars that have silhouettes of Donald Trump on one lens and Kamala Harris on the other
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    Why the west should be paying more attention to the gold price rise

    Buying of the precious metal reflects rising interest in alternatives to the dollar-based financial system

    A worker lifts a gold bullion bar from a conveyor machine in South Africa
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    Global economic growth
    Fragile confidence hinders global economic recovery

    Political and economic uncertainties drag on business and household mood, Brookings-FT Tiger index shows

    Kamala Harris, left, and Donald Trump
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    While Europe frets, India expects

    European foreboding about peace and stability in the world finds little echo in New Delhi

    Illustration of the outline of the map of India filled with a tranquil picture of green fields and blue skies while around it dark clouds swirl interspersed with explosions
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Jarosław Kuisz
    No one but Moscow gains from Polish-Ukrainian tensions

    Disputes over historical memory reflect Poland’s post-populist politics and Ukraine’s emergence on Europe’s stage

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    US foreign policy is too volatile to lead the world

    The swings between Democratic and Republican presidents weren’t so wild in America’s heyday

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    The China challenge isn’t bringing Americans together

    There is none of the bipartisan spirit that the cold war brought to Washington

    Illustration of a slingshot which has two elastic straps, each being pulled in the opposite direction so as to be aimed at each other
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Mark Malloch-Brown
    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
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Gillian Tett
    Our leaders must reject revenge politics

    It’s not the lessons of 1944 that we need to learn from — but those of 1919

    Illustration of a navy speech bubble and a yellow speech bubble intersecting and the area where they cross over is a map of the world
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    ObituaryVictor Halberstadt
    Victor Halberstadt, chair of the Bilderberg foundation, 1939-2024

    His deep commitment to the transatlantic relationship was rooted in his wartime experiences

    Victor Halberstadt
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    James Crabtree
    Putin’s gambit infuses the chess world with cold war intrigue

    Moscow aims to checkmate Ukraine and the west by overturning a ban on Russia’s federation membership

    Fischer and Spassky in the 1972 World Chess Championship
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    China, America and a global struggle for power and influence

    The whole world risks losing from the rivalry between Washington and Beijing

    A James Ferguson illustration of a bullet train passing through a landscape at dusk with Mount Fiji in the background, a bald eagle hovering above and some stars in the sky in the shape of the Chinese national flag
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Ivan Krastev
    The rise of frozen democracies is bad news

    Bulgaria is suffering from political long Covid — and the rest of Europe is at risk

  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Steven Everts
    How to reboot EU foreign policy

    The bloc urgently needs new ways of working and must change how it conceives of key partnerships

    The EU’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, right, greets Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Tim Judah
    The west needs to prepare for a crisis in Georgia

    Tbilisi is drifting towards neutrality and the Russian sphere of influence

    Georgian students stage a march to protest the controversial “foreign influence” bill in Tbilisi
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Masters in Management
    Why business students are getting to grips with geopolitics

    Grasping the impact of war and climate change is increasingly important for future leaders

    A bearded young man looks at the camera at the bottom of a set of stairs
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Sergei Guriev
    Why there are reasons to be cheerful in turbulent times

    Despite conflict, climate change and division, causes for optimism remain

    Schoolgirls sitting at group desk working on digital tablet
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has triggered doubts among Russian elite, spy chiefs say

    CIA director Bill Burns and MI6 chief Richard Moore made first joint public appearance onstage at the FTWeekend festival in London

    CIA director Bill Burns and MI6 chief Richard Moore
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    The new economic nationalism
    Can globalisation survive the US-China rift?

    Rivalry between Washington and Beijing has put global trade under intense pressure. But the system is proving more resilient than many expected

    Montage of images of a container ship, a satellite and a fraying submarine optical fibre cable
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Europe must rely less on Chinese technology, Danish PM says

    Mette Frederiksen says Copenhagen is also pushing EU for more action against Russia’s ‘shadow’ fleet

    Mette Frederiksen, Denmark's Prime Minister, gives a speech
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The middle-power competition in Africa

    The jostle for influence brings opportunities, but also scope for bad decisions

    A container ship arrives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    What is greedflation anyway? Premium content

    Plus Israel’s stock market

    A montage of a rolled up 10-dollar bill with one-dollar notes in the background
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Climate change
    Alarm raised on sea level rise and ocean warming as Pacific Islands leaders meet

    UN secretary-general calls for action as World Meteorological Organization highlights peril to low-lying nations in report

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in Samoa this week, ahead of the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tonga
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