The Globalist

Turkey’s President views the Balkan countries as easy prey. A close-up look at Albania’s future path.

In less than half a century, Serbia morphed from hero to villain. And the country remains an outcast, the stench of Milosevic still in the air.

Populists in power, like Five Stars and the Lega in Italy, can do serious damage. In the case of Italy, the key risks are long-term rather than immediate.

The UK should stay in the Customs Union on a 5-year renewable basis once it leaves the EU. This would honor the Brexit vote to leave the EU Treaty while safeguarding peace in Ireland.

Britain appears to be abandoning core virtues – its ability to be ruthlessly wedded to a realistic pragmatism and its relentless pursuit of its own commercial advantage.

The new German foreign minister charts a refreshingly principled stance toward Russia.

Why it is practically impossible for the SPD to reinvent itself.

Probing the economic wisdom of the UK leaving the EU’s “Common Wealth” for former imperial shores.

This summer will mark the centenary of the appearance of the first volume of Oswald Spengler’s influential The Decline of the West.

Is Mark Zuckerberg really in control of Facebook? Or is he a sorcerer’s apprentice that cannot handle the invention?