The World Today: April & May 2012: How web campaigning is changing politics

Berlin is playing the long game rather well, writes Stewart Fleming

One of the most original thinkers on global strategy and technology discusses the future of the nation state, the focus of British foreign policy and how good can emerge from crisis

The village that said: No more!

Xinghai Fang on why liberal economies need not fear China

In the circular economy nothing is wasted. Repair, not replace, is the byword. Felix Preston on a 30-year-old idea whose day is about to dawn

Southeast Asian nations are helping each other to tame the might of China and the United States, write Tinh Dinh Le and Cleo Paskal

It took a taskforce to liberate the Falklands, but deft footwork at the UN paved the way for victory. Michael Maclay describes the hero of the hour

Will Assad be allowed to pull off the same trick as his father, asks Bernd Debusmann

The Man To Unseat Putin

Instant digital images lack the documentary’s narrative, writes Burhan Wazir

Mark Malloch-Brown on the prospects for a diplomatic solution in Syria

Gareth Price finds few grounds for hope in Ahmed Rashid’s latest work

Bye-bye bunga bunga: Peter Popham marks Berlusconi’s passing as Italy braces itself for austerity

Which states are leaders and which are laggards in closing the gender gap?

Rick Falkvinge is an IT entrepreneur who launched the Swedish Pirate Party six years ago, championing freedom of communication and online privacy. In the 2009 European elections, 25 per cent of Swedish voters under 30 voted for it, winning it two seats in the European Parliament. Falkvinge is now the party’s ‘political evangelist’.

Chatham House experts highlight the issues missed by the media