Russia’s European neighbours hate landmines. They are installing them anyway

The number of strikes against jihadists is rising. Is it 2001 all over again?

A conclave of 135 cardinals may pick someone very different from Francis

Even if the world needs to become much better at managing their waste

For all its strength and swagger, China is struggling to handle an impulsive America

Will they become redundant as the technology develops?

Trade wars are alarming, but so are might-makes-right deals

The 15-70-15 rule and other ways to prise powerful fingers from the public coffers

Its experts cannot decide whether the second Trump presidency is a threat or an opportunity

The effects are often unexpected

In a fracturing world, trade and co-operation will come first

His antics are causing headaches for Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen

A revealing new history of the cold-war crisis that inspired modern refugee law

The shutdown of VOA, RFE/RL and other broadcasters weakens America and supporters of democracy

Will America’s president damage the world’s most powerful intelligence pact?

Only with something inferior to Elon Musk’s offering

Foreign-policy realists will struggle to explain America’s sharp turn

Poland wants co-operation with France on a nuclear deterrent. That could take many forms