theeconomist:

This week’s cover: as Syria disintegrates, it threatens the entire Middle East. The outside world needs to act before it is too late.

theeconomist:

This week readers in Latin America get their own cover, promoting our special report on Mexico. America needs to look again at its increasingly important neighbour. 

theeconomist:

This week’s cover: a controlled break-up of the euro would be hugely risky and expensive. So is waiting for a solution to turn up.

theeconomist:

KAL’s cartoon: this week, perpetual motion.

theeconomist:

This week’s cover: the absence of leadership in the West is frightening—and also rather familiar.

“STATES can die in obvious ways. …But what if a state ceases to exist as a physical reality—if it sinks, Atlantis-like, under the waves?”

theeconomist:

Hop, hop, hop, plop. What’s to be done about sinking states? As sea levels rise, lawyers ask how submerged islands can keep hold of their statehood.