When the global elite meets at the Swiss resort of Davos, for a spring gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), war will have forced its way to the top of the agenda. The pandemic has shrunk the annual jamboree of the great and the wealthy. Absent will be Russian oligarchs who hung around in “outer Davos” mostly uninvited ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants “Global Britain” to be seen as a superpower once again. While his Conservative government doesn’t seem quite certain how to manage this, it argued in a landmark policy paper last year that, in one area at least, the goal had already been achieved: The United Kingdom was a “soft-power superpower.” According to the government, this ...

  Winning power is the easy part of politics. It’s what you do with it that counts. That’s going to be the challenge for Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, after a striking election victory that has swept the right-of-center Liberal-National Coalition from power after nine years. The scale of victory for Albanese’s Labor party looks surprisingly modest. As a ...