The Globalist

By James M. Dorsey, September 25, 2017

The U.S. abandoning the Iran nuclear deal is the height of folly. It aligns Iran with China, and away from Europe.

By Ronald Meinardus, September 24, 2017

Can the EU replace the United States, as China starts dominating the globe?

By Michael J. Brenner, September 23, 2017

To get real, Americans must urgently rethink many modern mythologies they hold dear.

By Denis MacShane, September 22, 2017

There is a massive opening for France and Macron in Europe which no French president since Mitterrand 25 years ago has been able to seize.

By Dirk Helbing and Peter Seele, September 21, 2017

A proposal for the pro-social use of big data intelligence

By Holger Schmieding, September 20, 2017

As much as quite a few Catalans may want independence from Spain, it is practically impossible. But more regional autonomy is certainly possible.

By James M. Dorsey, September 19, 2017

The Kurds' quest for self-rule is potentially explosive. It puts them in the crosshairs of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Russia and the United States.

By Holger Schmieding, September 18, 2017

The election and subsequent choice of coalition matter. But the differences between the various options are modest rather than stark.

By The Globalist, September 17, 2017

Behind the emergence of the world’s largest national wine consumer.

By Kenneth Courtis, September 17, 2017

After using the Russian invasion diligently for plenty of international support, Ukraine’s elites aren’t holding up their side of the bargain: They keep ruining their country.

By The Globalist, September 17, 2017

As wine cultivation declines elsewhere, China is climbing toward the top.

By James M. Dorsey, September 17, 2017

On efforts to disentangle the incestuous and seemingly inseparable relationship between sports and politics.

By James Kotroczo, September 16, 2017

As long as the Democratic Party keeps allowing wealthy oligarchs to remain at the driver’s seat, it won’t matter what brand new figurehead they churn out of their assembly line.

By Biswas Baral, September 16, 2017

A recent dispute between the two regional powers highlights the risk to smaller neighbors between them.

By Philip Bowring, September 15, 2017

Asian nations must worry that Myanmar's moves against the Rohingyas won't start untangling all colonial-era boundaries, however illogical in terms of ethnic or religious issues those may have been.