When one sets out to answer the riddle about the future of Ukraine the answers that come depend to some extent on how far back one goes, but even if history casts a long shadow it is the events of the last half year, shaped by young demonstrators, mobs and militias, that dominate

Three Israeli teenagers murdered on Palestinian soil. One Palestinian boy burnt to death whilst alive in an apparent retaliation.

Nobel prizewinning economist Robert Fogel believes that China will grow at an average rate of 8 per cent until 2040, by which time it will be twice as rich as Europe in per capita terms. His model is based partly on so-called geometric growth.

War is all over the place. It seems. Not just in Syria and Iraq, but now in Pakistan as well.

In recent months, the scaremongers have been at it again. Russia’s foray into Ukraine and China’s behaviour in the South China Sea have set their alarm bells ringing. But why? Big power politics is not back.

Black Africa long went deeply down. Now it is rushing headlong up.

Who makes foreign policy in the US government? Ultimately the president. That goes without saying.

Who makes the law of the sea as China and Vietnam clash over China moving an oil rig close to an island only 40 kilometres from mainland Vietnam? One would hope that China, which has ratified the Law of the Sea Treaty that has, among its other virtues, an arbitrating court for s

Oil provides 70 per cent of booming Nigeria’s government revenues and without that, since tax collection is so poor, Nigeria would be a country without much in the way of education, health facilities, infrastructure building and urban renewal. People talk suggestively abou