Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

Empires dismantled

Cécile Marin — 2026-06-01T09:27:20Z

- Europe / Map, 2026/06 poland

Ethnic homogeneity by force

Cécile Marin — 2026-06-01T09:27:18Z

- Europe / Map, 2026/06 poland

Mali divided

Cécile Marin — 2026-06-01T09:26:47Z

- Africa / Map, 2026/06 mali

West Africa's cocaine connection

Tangi Bihan & Keïsha Corantin — 2026-06-01T09:26:23Z

Cocaine production and use are at record levels worldwide. West Africa has become a major transit hub, where traffickers exploit weak states, under-resourced enforcement and high-level corruption.

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The Russiagate fiasco

Vadim Nikitin — 2026-06-01T09:26:21Z

In 2016 Christopher Steele, a former MI6 operative who had moved into business intelligence, compiled a now notorious dossier alleging collusion between Donald Trump, then a US presidential candidate, and the Kremlin. Its claims proved unfounded.

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School for spies

Hager Ben Jaffel — 2026-06-01T09:26:20Z

The Diploma in Intelligence and Global Threats (DiReM) course at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye – known as the ‘Malotru Diploma' or ‘School for Spies' – sets out to train the next generation of French intelligence agents.

- 2026/06 / article

When it comes to China, America has a plan

Evgeny Morozov — 2026-06-01T09:26:19Z

AI competition with China is driving the United States' new fusion of military power, industrial planning and private capital. Countries are lining up behind the US strategy.

- 2026/06 / article

Memory battles

Catherine Gousseff — 2026-06-01T09:26:15Z

In the name of Polish-Soviet friendship, the postwar communist regimes long preferred to keep quiet about the ethnic cleansing that led to the disappearance of the Polish and Ukrainian minorities living on either side of their shared border.

- 2026/06 / box

Poland and Ukraine's painful shared history

Catherine Gousseff — 2026-06-01T09:26:14Z

Once a patchwork of peoples, the borderlands of Poland and Ukraine grew increasingly tense before the second world war. The war brought mass displacements that transformed their ethnic makeup.

- 2026/06 / article, 2026/06 poland

Colombia's incomplete transformation

Maurice Lemoine — 2026-06-01T09:26:09Z

Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftwing president, promised reform after decades of violence and inequality. Will his successor, to be sworn in this August, continue his programme or seek to reverse it?

- 2026/06 / article