Global markets and the new illiberalism

How crime organizes the world

For a leader who has always been essentially cautious, Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine seemed an uncharacteristically wild gamble. But Putin hasn’t really changed at all, says Mark Galeotti: he has simply become more himself

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“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol