The World Today

August & September 2016: Going it alone after 43 rocky years

The decision to leave the EU has shaken the foundations of Britain and her role in the world. Quentin Peel sets the scene for a series of articles on Britain’s future

Ian Bremmer on how Britain should chart its future adrift from Europe

Dublin will have to roll with the punches after Brexit shock, writes Bruce Clark

Famine before any feast as UK adjusts to life outside Europe, predicts Aengus Collins

Enrico Letta, the former Italian PM, says this is the moment statecraft must replace bureaucracy

Kwasi Kwarteng explores the challenges and opportunities facing Brexit Britain

The last issue opened with these prophetic words: ‘In the United Kingdom, a majority could vote in June to leave the European Union’. The majority did indeed vote for Brexit. In this issue, we look at how this unthinkable event will change the fortunes of the UK.

Articles

Country must look outward and avoid isolationism, argues Dan Jarvis

Laura Hammond argues that even with enlightened policies, migrants will still be drawn to Europe

UK has lessons to learn if it is to weather the storm, writes Stella Creasy

Theresa May, the new British prime minister, faces a central challenge in deciding the UK’s next steps towards the EU.

Celia Szusterman says Brexit has changed the situation for islanders

Advances offer a healthier future for all, but putting them into practice will not be easy, writes Liam Donaldson

Also in this issue

Future forces will be high-tech and much more compact, although Brexit may curb their deployment, writes James de Waal

Motorbike sales reflect a continent that’s on the move, writes David Ndii

C Raja Mohan looks at a rejuvenated Commonwealth

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that spread the Zika virus in a lab in Recife, Brazil

Epidemic may have peaked but could return, writes Asha Herten-Crabb

UK’s break from the EU has dealt Warsaw a blow, writes Pawel Swidlicki

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at the UN Headquarters in New York

Britain must seek friendly divorce from Europe, says Kishore Mahbubani

There is no time to fight with allies, writes Andrew Finkel

Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia (L), Raul Castro, President of Cuba (C) and Rodrigo Londoño, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), during a meeting about transitional justice agreement on September 23, 2015 in Havana, Cuba

The June 23 ceasefire is undoubtedly a major step towards ending the rural insurgency which has plagued Colombia for the past half century. But the peace process is still at a delicate stage, and many challenges remain

Drug use was common among American soldiers fighting in Vietnam

Louis Lillywhite assesses a history of drug use in warfare

Calder Hall, an industrial first but a technological dead end

Simon Taylor on the opening of Britain’s Calder Hall nuclear power station

Abu Salim prison in the Libyan capital Tripoli

Mary Fitzgerald on one man’s search for the truth about his father’s death

The key to understanding Prime Minister Theresa May’s core beliefs may lie in the career of Joseph Chamberlain. He was a radical reformer who, despite never becoming prime minister, pioneered the changes that distinguish Britain’s 20th century politics. Here are five things about May’s political hero.

Chatham House experts answer your questions

The people in the hall at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel were supposed to know the answers. Government officials, policy experts, business people and journalists, had come from all over the world to attend Chatham House’s third London Conference on June 16-17.