The Globalist

In a triumph of Western democracy, the interventionist impulses of US and UK are cut down to size.

Did population growth help create the scenario for the first World War?

What lessons can be drawn from a big crisis 20 years ago to help overcome the current malaise in Europe?

Can the U.S. economy trim costs and make itself internationally competitive?

How are native English speakers handicapping themselves by not learning other languages?

Will Ireland become a global hub of innovation in the management of renewable power?

Is it wise for the French to display inertia on economic reforms, while hoping for the election of a new German government? The UK’s former Minister for Europe weighs in.

Who left behind a stronger economy: the warrior-like conservative British Prime Minister or Australia’s bridge-builder?

Can you track the many ways in which Russia’s President and the UK’s late Prime Minister were alike?

What is the legacy of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher for Europe’s crisis-stricken countries today?