- — Highly strategic maritime borders
- - Gulf / Map, 2026/07 gulf
- — Humans and tigers: life among the mangroves
- - Asia / Map, 2026/07 tigers
- — The genocide that still haunts Namibia
- Between 1904 and 1908 colonial troops in German South West Africa killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. Their descendants feel powerless in the face of impending economic upheavals. - 2026/07 / article
- — The genocide that still haunts Namibia
- Between 1904 and 1908 colonial troops in German South West Africa killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. Their descendants feel powerless in the face of impending economic upheavals. - 2026/07 / article
- — Indonesia: depoliticised injustice
- Indonesia's leftwing activists used to believe Reformasi would produce economic policy that was pro organised labour. They're still waiting. - 2026/07 / article
- — Where the Ganges and Brahmaputra meet
- The Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve is the world's largest mangrove forest. But as rising seas erode the delta, the balance between conservation and human survival is fragile. - 2026/07 / article, 2026/07 tigers
- — Military dominance, strategic defeat
- Militarily, the US might be ‘utterly dominant', but that does not guarantee achieving its strategic goals. Iran is only the latest reminder of that. - 2026/07 / article
- — The US Democrats' foreign policy dead end
- Democratic criticism of Trump's wars in Iran and Israel's assault on Gaza has been cautious, almost procedural. The party remains attached to a foreign policy doctrine that many supporters have abandoned. - 2026/07 / article
- — Iraq stakes a claim to Gulf waters
- Iraq inherited an awkward geography on independence in 1932 and has spent a century trying to escape it. Now, competing claims to maritime zones and hydrocarbon reserves are reigniting old disputes. - 2026/07 / article, 2026/07 gulf
- — The nationalist ideology that binds India to Israel
- Once staunchly pro-Palestinian, India under Narendra Modi has forged close ties with Israel that are about more than arms sales: there's a deep ideological affinity between Hindu nationalism and Zionism. - 2026/07 / article
- — The Balkans in Europe's waiting room
- The EU promises the Balkans a bright future within the bloc. Yet enlargement remains stalled while member states profit from the Balkans' skilled labour, mineral resources – and migration control. - 2026/07 / article
- — Unlocking peace in Ukraine
- After four years of war, Moscow has already scaled back some of its key demands. Europe must now offer both sides a path to a lasting peace. - 2026/07 / article
- — US changes its tune on the Balkans
- With the war in Ukraine reshaping regional politics, Washington is applying its transactional approach to the Balkans through energy projects and political alliances, exposing the limits of EU influence. - 2026/07 / article
- — The AI backlash has begun
- The US public are resisting the construction of the vast data centres AI needs to achieve exponential growth. This is only the most visible sign of mounting opposition to the technology. - 2026/07 / article
- — When France dared to dream
- In 1945 the Resistance invited ordinary French people to imagine their country's future. A long-forgotten archive reveals their hopes and fears. - 2026/07 / editorial
- — Food shocks
- The agricultural sector's entrenched dependence on fertiliser has exposed it to geopolitical instability. Contemporary struggles over supply are nothing new. The closure over the past months of the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes roughly one third of internationally traded fertiliser, choked off a vital artery of the global food system. Modern agriculture is built on synthetic fertilisers, locking farmers into an input-intensive system driven by competition, profit and state (…) - Outside in / Comment
- — Beyond Rafah's gates, a politics of life and death
- On the road from Cairo to the Egypt–Gaza border, passing through no fewer than ten security checkpoints, a bus convoy of over 150 Egyptian journalists inched towards the gates of an internationally enabled genocide. It was 19 January 2025, and this state-organised expedition – a 20-hour round trip from the capital, with up to two hours on the ground at the Rafah crossing – represented the Egyptian press's sole opportunity to witness firsthand the isolated, militarised doorstep to the (…) - Outside in / Comment
- — June: the longer view
- The month's archives - 2026/06 / perspective
- — West Africa's cocaine connection
- Cocaine production and use are at record levels worldwide. West Africa has become a major transit hub, where traffickers exploit weak states, under-resourced enforcement and high-level corruption. - 2026/06 / article
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