Affairs / Government
Talking heads
From the presidents of Turkey and Colombia to the leader of the Israeli Labor party, Monocle interviews five political leaders from some of the world’s most volatile regions.
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Affairs / Politics
Politics Forecast
A look ahead at the year in politics, including the challenges facing Nicholas Sarkozy, some potential new EU members and the run-up to the US election.
Affairs / Government
Expo: Washinton DC
Washington DC is an international talent magnet, pulling in people from around the world to advance agendas for their home territories. With a milieu that’s about as multicultural as it gets, the District of Columbia is as…
Culture / Music
Monocolumn
Wednesday 4 January
Rock star politicians shout to be heard
Rock’n’roll has always defined itself as the ungovernable voice of opposition to the establishment. Since the first guitar was plugged in, the form has been the primary artistic arena for expressing ideals utopian, outr…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 15 November
The politics of posturing
Just over a week after Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, sent 15,000 troops to the border with Colombia and told his army to “prepare for war”, the incendiary leader has now denied that the moves were meant as a threat to…
Affairs / Travel
Monocolumn
Wednesday 7 July
The politics of holidays
An interesting email message was sent the other day to a senior Israeli journalist by the press office of the Greek embassy in Tel Aviv.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Monday 29 March
Brittany’s happiness conference
In the Atlantic Coast city of Rennes last weekend, an impressive line up of French luminaries gathered for what the organiser, Libération newspaper, described as “a laboratory of the imagination, of a collective happiness…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 13 November
Political parallels
Republicans are not the only politicians desperately trying to work out what Barack Obama’s re-election means for their future electoral prospects: party leaders across Europe are also searching for clues and nowhere is…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 31 October
The politics of disaster
Natural disasters are supposed to be apolitical. Campaigning ceases, adverts are pared back, the daily round of polls disappears. Yet with just a few days to go until a presidential election, nothing is apolitical.
Affairs / Fashion
Monocolumn
Tuesday 9 April
Image politics
The well-managed caricature of Margaret Thatcher often overshadowed some questionable ideas.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 4 August
Rock stars and politics
On 28 November, the perpetually beleaguered and misruled Caribbean nation of Haiti will choose a new president.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Tällberg: Jan Eliasson
Former ambassador Jan Eliasson is currently the United Nations Secretary General Special Envoy to Darfur, Sudan. He was Sweden's Ambassador to the US from September 2000 until July 2005. He has been, and is currently,…
Edits / Government
Southern Sudan – Newborn nation
Southern Sudan's long march to freedom is almost over. Six years after a peace deal ended one of Africa's bloodiest civil wars a referendum is taking place that is almost certain to lead to the break-up of Sudan. But what…
Design / Fashion
Monocolumn
Wednesday 8 February
Political fashion for men is a conservative affair
We’re in a media age where politicians’ sporting prowess or domestic pet ownership can be as meticulously chewed over by the media as actual policy.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 27 October
Political death heralds end of an era
Argentinean politics was thrown into turmoil yesterday with the death of ex-president Néstor Kirchner, who suffered a fatal double heart attack in hospital in his native Patagonia.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 22 January
Keep political beige in Beijing
In Hong Kong, an unelected chief executive needs personality to inspire his people.
Affairs / Politics
Forecast 2010: Politics
Where will things kick off in 2010? Will anyone manage to make a new country in the new year? Or oust a tyrant? Or even manage to join the EU?
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 8 August
South America’s unsung political hero
Contrary to popular belief, the best leader in the world is not Barack Obama. Sorry to break it to the Germans but it’s not Angela Merkel either. François Hollande? Not a chance.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 27 March
Corruption continues to taint India politics
It does not bode well for a government when its choice for the country’s new anti-corruption chief is blocked by the judiciary because he has been accused of corruption.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 29 January
Angola’s politics: a spectator sport
At football’s Africa Cup of Nations, currently being held in Angola, one man has been everywhere.