The hegemon slips

When the president of the US is a former television show host, it’s no wonder that world politics resembles a bad am-dram production with a furious director. “I’m not happy with Israel… I’m not happy

Oil shock averted? World leaders and commodity traders have spent the past fortnight on edge as the long-running Iran-Israel conflict turned hot. Matters came to a head at the weekend when the US dire

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IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re

“We will measure our success not only by ...