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Business
Converting cars into electric vehicles, Japan’s quality-assurance badge and small German farms.
Affairs
Hannah Lucinda Smith visits Turkish cities recently devastated by powerful earthquakes – a catastrophe made even worse by corrupt, shoddy construction.
Do cultural boycotts work?
In the midst of occupation, is it effective to ban a nation's ballet, artistic output from an institution's syllabi or musicians from playing? As Russia's war continues, we consider the efficacy of cultural boycotts.
Soft Power Survey 2022
With the international order shaken by the war in Ukraine, we celebrate the gentler art of global persuasion.
The peacemaker
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has become the face of diplomacy against a country seemingly hell-bent on ignoring common sense.
Mellow yellow
Amid economic chaos and geopolitical shifts, Jesper Brodin is transforming Ingka Group, the firm behind Ikea, with serenity.
The hard or soft option
When war tests diplomacy's limits, which nations wielded cultural influence most effectively? Our annual survey reveals surprising winners in the soft-power stakes.
Call to arms
The conventional war in Ukraine has been good business for defence firms. But other potential skirmishes could play out in more hybrid warfare in the year ahead.
Life during wartime
Ukrainians are making plans for a victorious future but accept peace is far off. In the latest of our dispatches, a Ukrainian writer-turned-reservist reports from the front line.
Watch this space
Our round-up of innovators and fresh thinkers reveals how a storied food movement is transforming farming and what’s causing a stir between the covers in Jakarta’s new library.
