The Globalist

Can Russia’s recent history be explained through a vodka glass?

Why are some of Europe’s pro-American elites now wondering whether they got it wrong?

How the events in Tiananmen Square drove the first free election in Eastern Europe from front pages around the world.

Global ironies in Asia’s continuing struggle for national independence, now against China.

Pope Francis and John Paul II are both transformative figures.

How did Communist China manage to become so fiercely competitive?

Stephan Richter’s NYTimes Oped: Detroit’s collapse — bad luck, globalization to blame or indicative of a U.S.-wide problem?

Remember the times when peasants, not the proletariat, were the vanguards of China’s communist revolution?

What flaws do conservative Chinese thinkers see in Western democracy compared with their own system?

Was the second half of the 20th century — when capitalism became entwined with democracy, the welfare state and liberalism — just an unusual interlude?