Mike Higgins

The shock waves from the war in Iran are spreading beyond the Gulf. We count the rising cost, and ask how a lasting peace might be negotiated. Also, Lawrence Freedman recalls his years at Chatham House and a bold proposal for Europe’s new role in the world.

The Canadian politician and diplomat tells Mike Higgins how Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos in January on the ‘rupture in the world order’ has heralded a national hardening of attitudes to trade, defence and the future of Greenland.

From President Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland to Beijing’s claims over the South China Sea, cartographer William Rankin tells Mike Higgins how maps sometimes don’t help geopolitical decision-making.