Trump has learned how to function in a world in which people now live in very separate realities, where they get their news from Facebook recommendat….

Putin saw the Ukrainian revolution as a challenge to him personally, and I think that's why he, in fact, over-reacted. I think his occupation of Crim….

Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and Congression….

Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia's richest men; they don't like the sanctions; they don't like the war with the West. Many of them h….

Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that eco….

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem..

Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and te….

There will instead be a number of fake opposition figures, one of whom is now probably going to be Kseniya Sobchak, which is an absurd idea. I assume….

Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, appears to imagine an alliance between Trump, Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Nigel Farage. Call it the pop….

Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with ….

The nationalist right have common views. They hate the EU, they hate NATO, they dislike trade, they admire Russia. Many of them are funded by Putin..

nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in….

To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms of democracy ….

European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for the possibility of Euro….

I have been told by people close to Trump that "Brexit Britain" is the only foreign policy issue that interests him, because he thinks the UK referen….

I don't think Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump really have friends. But Trump has openly admired Putin for many years, with no reservations. He even s….

We may be reaching the end of the liberal world order..

I don't think Americans realize the degree to which they are the main subject of Russian television news. Every night there's news from the United St….

The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parti….

Think of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ciudadanos in Spain, Nowoczesna in Poland. These are early efforts to reimagine a liberal….

Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of course, the secret police force of the Soviet Un….