The Globalist

How have the British paid a steep price for their appetite for gossip and the unnecessary details of grizzly crimes?

Nearly ten years after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, how is the country faring?

Why are the recent Mumbai attacks a nasty byproduct of internecine churning within the Pakistani military?

Imagine Europe had rapidly brought to bear all the firepower imaginable in Libya. Would the world be better off?

Is Germany burying its head in the sand when confronted with the headwinds of the real world?

How is the U.S.-Pakistan relationship reminiscent of that between Democrats and Republicans?

How has globalization affected how Europe’s richest man does business?

To what lengths will some Afghan women go to escape misogynistic social customs?

How can Egypt stand at the edge of a new period of modernization and opening up in the Arab world?

Our top ten recent features on the Middle East paint a nuanced portrait of the world’s most volatile region.