As great powers become increasingly unstable and unpredictable, smaller nations are building alliances and trade deals. Guests including Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, consider whether we have entered the age of the middle power.

Explainer 519: Why Morocco and Senegal’s football rivalry is the one to watch this World Cup
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The Cuban man-made crisis: will the US’s maximum-pressure campaign topple Havana’s government?
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Explainer 518: Duterte vs Marcos in the latest episode of Filipino Family Feud
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