In the span of just a few days, US President Donald Trump appears to have met both his first true foreign policy crisis and his most challenging bilateral summit more smoothly than many had feared he might. Whether this turns out to be anything more than a symbolic victory, and whether it has an effect in the fight against ...

  Protests have become a staple in Venezuelan life. Venezuela, once one of the richest in Latin America, plunged into the political crisis soon after President Nicolas Maduro took the helm of the country following the death of ex-president Hugo Chavez in 2013. The latest round of protests erupted after the Supreme Court’s attempt to seize the power of the ...

  Till fairly recently, it looked like two massive new agreements would compete to define the future of world trade. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, backed by the US, would try to move the global trade architecture toward new norms, with harmonized regulations at its centre. Meanwhile, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), backed by China, would drastically reduce remaining tariffs across ...