It is time to relearn the cold-war arts of escalation management

NATO navies struggle to contain a new danger on the seas

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett examines an icon from the battlefield

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants

A new premium video experience from The Economist, coming on October 9th

Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower

The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor

Going rogue, decay or Trumpification 

Why the West is finding it so hard to deter China and Russia

Drones ride into the danger zone

For Spain’s leader, Pedro Sánchez, opposing Trump is a lonely endeavour

Israel gains diplomatic insurance by supplying weapons crucial to Europe’s defence

China offers the world a values-free, results-based vision of AI governance

A ferocious global arms race is big business

“Marxist lunacy” is out. But unbiased chatbots may be impossible

Dark lessons from history that explain Vladimir Putin’s “peacemaking”

Alarming new research on the link between heat and dangerous pregnancies

The Trumpian assault on globalism, as seen from Singapore

How The Economist reported on the war, week by week

Readying for a rumble in the jungle