Affairs
Recognising Palestinian statehood is largely symbolic – but symbols are powerful
Over the past few days, the leaders of France, Canada and the UK have all announced their intention to recognise Palestine as a state at the next UN General Assembly (Unga) in September. All…
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Exercise Red Flag: A multinational aerial combat training designed to simulate the ‘chaos of combat’
As the need for nimbler, more agile air forces grows, the US and its allies are perfecting the art of mid-air refuelling.
Unarmed and dangerous: Evaluating the effectiveness of Hybrid COE
Petri Burtsoff on the body helping the West to react to hybrid warfare – and why a firmer response is needed.
How Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are laying down tracks for the future with the BTK railway
By plane, train and automobile, we take in the shifting allegiances within the Caucasus’s former-Soviet states.
The Agenda: Comment
Is green space bad? Des Fitzgerald explains how urban parks were designed to make us factory-ready – and why it’s not so different today.
Ready and waiting
Lithuania might be small but this plucky Baltic nation’s proximity to Russia means that it is ramping up its military might. Monocle meets its newest conscripts.
Touch and go
How do America’s first responders train for the worst natural – or manmade – disasters? We pull on a hazmat suit to find out.
Blue brigade
A new contingent of French riot police is armed, trained and controversial. Will they be called on when the Olympics roll into town?
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The Agenda: Affairs
defence –– europeChills and drills The placid snow in Norway’s Far North will soon be whipped up by helicopter propellers, then beaten back down by the sturdy boots of a multinational force. Nordic Response 2024,…
Davos: where are we going?
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos has brought together political leaders, CEOs and scholars to discuss about how to tackle the world’s most pressing issues and move forward. Monocle Films travels to…
