Foreign Policy
Notes from a ceasefire
Ukraine’s war goes on – in some places now, and soon everywhere
Back to the front
Germans are beginning to recognise that they will not always be able to stay out of military conflicts
World disorder
The old cliché that ‘nothing happens in August’ has again been brutally disproved. From the centenary of the outbreak of…
What to do about Putin
Sanctions won’t help. One thing might
Talking tough
Last year a Washington-based journalist called Mark Leibovich wrote This Town, a book whose thesis was, roughly, that Washington-based journalists…
Beware of the hawks
Supporters of intervention in Syria will be the first to desert Cameron when the going gets tough
The good Iranian
If President Hassan Rouhani is anything like his mentor, peace has another chance
The EU’s new army of diplomats
The Prime Minister recently professed himself shocked at waste in the European Union. In particular, he was incensed by an…
World-weary world power
A year or so after the ‘liberation’ of Iraq, an unnamed senior Bush administration official (later revealed to be Karl…
