David Smith

David Smith was an award-winning correspondent for 30 years for ITN/C4News, then worked as an adviser to Kofi Annan at the UN. Now based in Latin America, he writes for The Economist. He is the author of three books, and sometime Visiting Professor in the United States.

A frightening new autocratic international order is taking shape

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The world has lost its only credible arena for peace

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Putin learned post-Cold War warfare from the West

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Going mano e mano with the malady of Montevideo

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Why not flip the script, and let China lead the world out of the climate crisis?

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Powell’s real legacy was Barack Obama

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Abiy Ahmed has joined the long list of Africa’s “democrats” who became dictators

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The legacy of communist cult leader Abimael Guzman lives on in Peru

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Twenty years later, it’s hard to remember how the world reacted with a unity unthinkable today

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The winners of the Cold War turned out to be the authoritarians, not the democrats

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