Twenty-five years after the wall's collapse, the greatest threat to the west comes from the groundless faith that history is on its side

Economically and politically the five economies could not be more different when it comes to size, structure, values and national interests

The government licenses the sale of weapons to 13 countries of concern, including Russia, Syria and Israel

Russian incompetence is to blame for the downing of Flight MH17

The downing of MH17 may stiffen the backbones of the EU and US in their dealings with Russia but is unlikely to be a game changer

History is re-told to fit the needs of the present, but these distortions create violent conflicts of their own

What explains the decline of violence?

The performance artist has starved and cut herself for her art, but can she survive celebrity?

The former Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, on military spending, the threat from Russia, and why Afghanistan has strengthened the alliance

It’s striking that those who have come top of Prospect’s poll to pick the World Thinker of 2014 have devoted their lives to questions of development. We don’t, I should say at the start, make...