The World Today

August & September 2014: The great European migration

Europe has emerged as one of the world’s two major destination regions for immigrants since the 1990s, but it is equally clear that many Europeans are ill at ease with this.

The former Foreign Office high-flyer on the need to give a voice to the voiceless, and how he helped John le Carré create a fictional whistle-blower

Beijing is pursuing a high-risk strategy

Branding the country a failed state is unhelpful

A Trident nuclear submarine prepares to put to sea from Faslane naval base. Photo: Jeff J.Mitchell/Getty Images

Scotland the brave new world

The influx of foreign workers is not the burning issue it once was

Fostering the free movement of people has been a European goal since the 1950s. So why is it only now that anti-immigrant parties are on the rise inside the European Union?

Articles

A long view of the problems of modern migration

But the Kyiv government still has a mountain to climb

Sweden and Finland are weighing the benefits of joining NATO

In the middle of the last century, high-yielding varieties of rice, wheat and maize were introduced across much of the developing world, transforming agriculture. But the Green Revolution passed Africa by, however.

August 13, 1964: Simultaneous executions close a grim chapter

A settlement caught up in history’s whirlwind

Also in this issue

An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict Mike Martin, Hurst, £21.25 The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier Hassan Abbas, Yale University Press, £17.09 & £10.19 e-book The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan 2001-2014 Carlotta Gall, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, £16.04 & £10.19 e-book