North America | Harold James Late Soviet America Like the Soviet Union in its final years, the US is reeling from failures of leadership and suppressed socio-economic tensions
Global How to profit from the pandemic Law firms promote multi-million dollar lawsuits against corona measures. It's time to do away with this parallel legal system By Pia Eberhardt
Global A new tone in EU-China relations Corona, Hong Kong, propaganda: The list of dissonances with Beijing is getting longer. We need a new EU-China policy By Nils Schmid
Europe The myth of Trump’s revenge campaign Trump's plan to withdraw US troops from Germany are by no means based on a whim. Europe is simply losing its significance By Payam Ghalehdar
Asia North Korea increases the pressure Through targeted provocations, Pyongyang wants to strengthen its position and achieve a relaxation of sanctions By Henning Effner
Global Sanctions will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe Unilateral sanctions by Western governments hinder the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic. They need to be lifted By Susanne Grabenhorst
Middle East Jordan’s catch-22 Israel’s latest annexation plans present an impossible choice for Jordan, the Middle East’s anchor of stability By Tim Petschulat
Global The new empty argument against trade If anything, the current crisis offers powerful evidence of why we need global supply chains and widely distributed production By Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
International relations Confronting China If China wishes to lead the world, it will have to offer more than money and intimidation By Ian Buruma
Global Global Quarantine X International cooperation is under pressure in the corona pandemic. The G20, UN and IMF are bucking the trend By Jochen Steinhilber and Bettina Luise Rürup and Elisabeth Bollrich
Donald Trump's unhealthy relationship with the US military During the George Floyd protests, the US President threatened to send in the military. This signified something deeply unhealthy about US democracy
Late Soviet America Like the Soviet Union in its final years, the US is reeling from failures of leadership and suppressed socio-economic tensions
A slaughterhouse for workers It’s not Romanians spreading the virus, it’s capitalism. The exploitation of workers in German meat factories has to end
