The Globalist

By Shaili Chopra, January 15, 2022

An economic force waiting in the wings.

By Quentin Langley, January 13, 2022

Any 21st century solution to the problem of poorly defined ownership rights is likely to be built on incorruptible, probably non-governmental platforms.

By Philip Bowring, January 10, 2022

In view of China’s pin-prick strategy, the world’s third-largest democracy is developing some military teeth.

By Pallavi Aiyar, January 8, 2022

The confessions of an atheist.

By Stephan Richter and Alexei Bayer, January 7, 2022

Why the popular uprising against corrupt national elites in oil-rich Kazakhstan has Putin and Russia so nervous.

By James M. Dorsey, January 6, 2022

Former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev may be the last barricade blocking a confrontation between Russia and Kazakstan.

By Stephan Richter and Alexei Bayer, January 5, 2022

How the closure of the Memorial in Russia is a template for the kind of society Republicans want to build in the U.S.

By Julia Watson, January 1, 2022

Increased consumption of ultra-processed foods is directly linked to increased greenhouse gas emissions.

By Frank Vogl, January 1, 2022

Looking ahead to 2022, three Nobel Prize winners have one uniting message for all of us: All around the world, we must fight much harder for freedom.

By Barry Wood, December 28, 2021

The year when China was brought out of its shell -- and the U.S. started learning about unsuccessful interventions.

By Pallavi Aiyar, December 25, 2021

Two age-old questions: What is travel? And why do we do it?

By Denis MacShane, December 22, 2021

How Eric Zemmour, a right-wing candidate for president in France, abuses the legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven for electoral purposes.

By James M. Dorsey, December 17, 2021

The Chinese-dominated Pakistani port city of Gwadar -- the crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) -- increasingly looks like a powder keg that has exploded.

By Stephan Richter and Suzanne Loftus, December 16, 2021

Putin is keen on inciting “hybrid attacks” against the West to de-stabilize it. He may well end up inadvertently stabilizing it.

By Andrés Ortega, December 9, 2021

All wars are hybrid, but war -- and the notion of hybrid -- have changed.