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Brexit’s lesson for Asia’s democracies

The United Kingdom, in voting to divorce the European Union, is steering the West into uncharted territory. Will the EU now unravel, as other populists and nationalists demand plebiscites on their respective countries’ membership? Will …

Europe after Brexit

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt once proclaimed that ‘the only thing we have to fear is fear itself’. The United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ referendum, in which just over half of those who voted chose to leave …

Britain at sea

In the early 1960s, former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson famously quipped that the United Kingdom had lost an empire, and not yet found a role. Afterwards, successive British leaders tried to change that, …

The meaning of Brexit

The Brexit vote was a triple protest: against surging immigration, City of London bankers, and European Union institutions, in that order. It will have major consequences. Donald Trump’s campaign for the US presidency will receive …