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Diplomacy

Bubbling under

Speculation about the blasts that wrecked the Nord Stream gas pipelines has been rife. Is the truth about to surface?

  • Issue #162
  • 12 min read
Aerial surveillance footage showing gas bubbles on Baltic Sea surface from Nord Stream pipeline explosion
Affairs

Affairs

Hannah Lucinda Smith visits Turkish cities recently devastated by powerful earthquakes – a catastrophe made even worse by corrupt, shoddy construction.

  • Issue #162
  • 12 min read
Rescue workers in high-visibility vests search through earthquake rubble with an orange excavator amid destroyed buildings
Politics

Affairs

A diplomatic spat in the Gulf and why tinned meat has boosted the reputation of the US.

  • Issue #161
  • 5 min read
Two officials at podiums with Iraqi and Iranian flags during diplomatic meeting
Diplomacy

The peacemaker

Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has become the face of diplomacy against a country seemingly hell-bent on ignoring common sense.

  • Issue #159
  • 10 min read
Dmytro Kuleba wearing glasses and a grey cardigan over a white shirt, sitting in his office
Diplomacy

Chimes of freedom

The Ukraine war has stoked fears of invasion in Taiwan. But it’s at the ballot box where its future relations with China could be defined.

  • Issue #159
  • 10 min read
Chimes of freedom
Diplomacy

Diplomacy

Monocle looks at six new diplomatic missions opening in the next few years.

  • Issue #159
  • 1 min read
German embassy building in Addis Ababa with modern architecture and landscaped grounds
Diplomacy

Affairs

The soft power of Cuban doctors, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s in-tray and the mayor of Freetown’s game-changing plan.

  • Issue #159
  • 5 min read
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr speaking at climate conference
Politics

Affairs

Berlin mayor Franziska Giffey, a dating app for US conservatives and Andrew Mueller on the new populists.

  • Issue #158
  • 8 min read
Colombian ambassador Armando Benedetti shaking hands with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro
Urbanism

Urbanism

The fate of Friendship Park, which straddles the border, hangs in the balance.

  • Issue #157
  • 4 min read
Pat Nixon shaking hands with crowd at Friendship Park border opening in 1971

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