The World Today: February & March 2023: Women on the path to peace

Years of adversity, public unity and private-sector creativity have made Ukraine a formidable enemy, writes Orysia Lutsevych.

Women are vital in the war effort - but better female political representation will be needed to rebuild Ukraine, argues Trisha de Borchgrave.

Expensive procurement and bureaucratic torpor hamper the alliance – Ukraine’s embrace of cyber technology and new funding shows the way forward, writes Rob Murray.

The political scientist tells Daniel Conway about the ‘hidden labour’ of women in international politics and why feminism trumps fairness in foreign policy.

Africa’s biggest democracy is at a fork in the road after successive politicians have increasingly failed its young electorate, writes Leena Koni Hoffmann.

Two years after the coup, women are defying the generals’ misogyny by overturning gender stereotypes and mounting political and armed resistance, writes Zoya Phan.

Berlin’s key role in shoring up Europe’s strategic autonomy should be high on the agenda at the Munich Security Conference, Mike Higgins reports.

With the Sino-US Xi relationship cooling, Xi Jinping is sending a new diplomatic team to Europe – but his ties to Putin may mean slow progress, writes Yu Jie.

Some of Ukraine’s cultural creators have taken up arms while others battle Russia through poetry, films and concerts, finds Helen Fitzwilliam.

Transfer illegally held land from big ranchers to small farmers who don’t have the incentives to deforest, argues the investigative journalist in his book ‘Masters of the Lost Land’.

‘The Suffragist Peace’ makes a persuasive, if not perfect, argument that democracies with female enfranchisement are less likely to go to war, writes Mona Siegel.

An photo exhbition in London explores nine years in lives of Ukrainians since the country’s revolution and Russian annexation then invasion.

Jack Dorsey’s tweet on March 21 2006 launched Twitter – and a storm of abuse for prominent women that harms them and democracy, writes Carolina Caeiro.

Taiwan is worried about its falling population, but the country’s pro-childbirth policies have been failing for decades, writes Yen-hsin Alice Cheng.

Tania Branigan’s searching ‘Red Memory’ reveals the costs to Chinese society of not addressing that upheaval’s lingering injustices, writes Nathan Law.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has galvanized the bloc, but doubt remains about how it can capitalize on this moment, writes Catherine Fieschi.