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...

How Europe can end Russia’s grip on gas

New technology is driving growth

1. We, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission met in The Hague...

Neither Russia nor the west can satisfy their individual goals in Ukraine, but if they fail to find a solution to the crisis they risk the destruction of this divided nation