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Russian oligarch Alexei Mordashov’s “Nord” yacht passed through the Strait of Hormuz in April 2026. Picture taken in the Eastern Bosphorus Strait in 2022.

Power and wealth

The oligarchs’ world is here. What can we do about it?

Oligarchs not only influence our world already – if they continue to fuse wealth and power, they can run it. Containing them is the central challenge of our time.

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by David Lingelbach
by Valentina Rodríguez Guerra

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In 1860, a joint force of French and British troops demolished the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Illicit drugs

How opium became a pillar of the British Empire

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by Hans Dembowski
Mongolia lies between two powerful neighbours.

International Criminal Court

Why Mongolia’s legal failure to arrest Putin has only limited political impact

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by Hans Dembowski
Handicraft items figure among Nepal’s exports: woman weaving a shawl at a trade fair in Kathmandu in early 2023.

Landlocked nation

Nepal is sandwiched between two BRICS members

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by Rukamanee Maharjan
Container handling in the port of Mannheim in Germany.

China

How China is causing global shifts

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by Matthias von Hein
Coup supporters in Niger wave Russian flags.

Russia and China

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies

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by Vladimir Antwi-Danso
by Hans Dembowski
Vast amounts of ice and snow are melting in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region.

The Hindu Kush Himalaya region

Nature is changing rapidly in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

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by Syed Muhammad Abubakar
A Chinese instructor and his apprentice inspect a train on Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, a flagship project of China-Africa cooperation, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Global governance

Cooperation that benefits developing countries

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by Isah Shafiq
After criticising the government, Jack Ma disappeared from public life in 2020.

Political economy

How Xi Jinping is exacerbating China’s economic misery

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by Hans Dembowski
China has become the most important bilateral creditor nation: promotional posters for Sri Lankan port project in early 2022.

Bail-out lending

Disagreement between China and the Paris Club

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
The G20 must play its role – Janet Yellen, US treasury secretary, at a meeting of finance ministers in India in February.

Fiscal space

Economies in limbo

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by José Siaba Serrate
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