Foreign and security policyThe EU's vaccine 'non-diplomacy' The EU disregards the Chinese and Russian vaccines. But without financial support, that's a luxury Europe's East can't afford By Denis Cenusa
Foreign and security policyUnsplendid isolation: Britain after ‘Brexit’ A Biden presidency — allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ — leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role By Paul Mason
Foreign and security policyWhose post-pandemic century? Asian countries managed Covid-19 far better than the West. But it remains to be seen whether 2020 marked the beginning of a new 'Asian Century' By Bill Emmott
Foreign and security policyAfghanistan is on the brink Violence is on the rise again in Afghanistan. Amid inevitable troop withdrawals, the question of dialogue with the Taliban shifts from 'if' to 'how' By Magdalena Kirchner
Foreign and security policyThe far right told us what it had planned. We didn’t listen The Capitol riots weren't Trumpism’s 'last gasp', but a performance of a long-held fantasy. And most perpetrators walked away to fight another day By Seyward Darby
Foreign and security policyFor a strategy of minimal deterrence Nuclear weapons don’t have to be stationed in Germany to keep Europe safe. A minimal stockpile is all that NATO needs By René Schlee
Foreign and security policyWho gets it first? The run on the coronavirus vaccines is also about power and image. Dispatches from Serbia, Argentina and Kenya By Svenja Blanke, Jan Siebert, Max Brändle
Foreign and security policyA deal for the Asian century The new mega trade deal RCEP is set to change the geo-economic and geopolitical map. The future of the international order will be decided in Asia By Mirco Günther
Foreign and security policyAmerica, heal thyself If the US is to resume its role as in the liberal international order, it needs to overcome the domestic divisions By Ana Palacio
Foreign and security policyThe global reaction to the US elections Trump is out, Biden is in — so how are friends and foes reacting? Dispatches from China, Russia, Great Britain and Brazil By