Articles

20.09.04

Election campaigns are typically occasions when parties promise they will bring changes, all for the better—except the incumbent party, which claims that its...

20.08.04

Around the beautiful old city of Salzburg in Austria, "the hills are alive with the sound of music", at least according to Julie Andrews´ character in the...

20.07.04

For almost three years, talks have been going on to try to achieve a new phase of world trade liberalisation—the Doha Development Round, named after the...

01.07.04 Publication: The Scotsman

Japan´s sun is rising again, after a decade of stagnation, with economic recovery now widely based and quite powerful, even if it is too soon to say...

20.06.04

It is too easy to be complacent about what has just happened in Europe. Ten countries, eight of them from central Europe and so formerly part of the Soviet...

20.05.04

There are two noticeable divides, these days, in world affairs. One is between those who are essentially optimistic about politics, war, terrorism and economic...

01.05.04 Publication: The Economist

Resign, RumsfeldResponsibility for errors and indiscipline needs to be taken at the top Responsibility for errors and indiscipline...

20.04.04

Bit by bit, step by step, month by month, the worlds opinion of Japan is changing. Such opinions always change even more slowly than the country does itself,...

20.03.04

The question that everyone wants economists to answer, and which even economists would dearly like to be able to offer good answers to, is the question of why...

01.02.04 Publication: The Economist

Equal rights The case for gay marriageFeb 26th 2004 From The Economist print editionIt rests on equality, liberty and even...

01.01.04 Publication: Foreign Policy

North Korea´s nuclear threat is forcing Japan to choose between two strategic options: draw closer to the United States, or develop a more autonomous and...

01.09.03 Publication: New Statesman

Is the vacuum of leadership that led Japan astray in the 1930s not also the country´s central political problem today, asks BILL EMMOTT The rise and fall of...

01.07.03 Publication: The Economist

Dear Mr Berlusconi...Why we are sending an open letter to the Italian prime minister Why we are sending an open letter to the Italian...

01.06.03 Publication: The Economist

Radical birthday thoughts Our happy 160th anniversary is an unhappy time for capitalism, writes Bill Emmott, editor of The...

01.06.03 Publication: New Statesman

The past 20 years have seen the growth of a huge global middle class. So George Monbiot is wrong to say that poverty is increasing, and equally wrong in his...

01.11.02 Publication: The Guardian

There were three speakers on the panel - an American hawk, a European multilateralist and a Russian liberal MP - but it was the Russian who sprang the...

01.06.02 Publication: The Economist

Present at the creation For the first time at least since 1989, but arguably since 1945, America has both the chance and the...

01.05.01 Publication: The Economist

Britain´s election Vote conservativeBut choose the ambiguous right-winger rather than the feeble one THE fact that the most...

01.12.00 Publication: The Guardian

"What, you a republican?!," exploded a Tory peer recently when the subject of the Economist´s anti-monarchical views came up; "but you are intelligent, you...

01.09.99 Publication: The Economist

On the yellow brick road What might the 21st century bring? Some clues can be found by looking at the ebb and flow of the 20th, writes...

01.03.97 Publication: Prospect Magazine

Parliamentary sovereignty is not the solution to Britain´s European impasse. Bill Emmott, editor of The Economist, and David Manasian, argue that Thatcherites...