BREXIT and beyond ....: JAPAN TIMES Brexit Headlines: 1 Dec

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JAPAN TIMES Brexit Headlines: 1 Dec - 31 Dec 2016

Brexit Headlines

WORLDDEC 29, 2016

The top overseas news stories of 2016

The Japan Times newsroom selected these world news stories as the most important of 2016. 1. The rise of Donald Trump: On Nov. 8, Republican Party candidate Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election. The 70-year-old was seen as a long shot at the ...

COMMENTARY / WORLDDEC 28, 2016

Democracy may be down but it's far from out

BY JOHN LLOYD

This past year has been one where the limits and failings of democracy became more visible than at any time since World War II enshrined the view that representative government was best.

EDITORIALS DEC 26, 2016

The year the establishment failed

Key events in 2016 were moments of disintegration that

exposed a frail and fragile

political order.

COMMENTARY / WORLDDEC 26, 2016

Yes, 2016 was bad — and 2017 could be worse

BY PETER APPS

This has been a complicated year. Don't count on 2017 being any easier.

COMMENTARY / WORLDDEC 18, 2016

Welcome to the age of hyper-uncertainty

BY BARRY EICHENGREEN

The year 2017 will mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Age of Uncertainty." But if Galbraith were writing the same book in 2017, he probably would call the 1970s the Age of Assurance.

BUSINESS DEC 18, 2016

U.K., looking beyond Europe, to hold regular trade talks with South Korea

The U.K. and South Korea are set to begin regular trade talks, with luxury brands a

particularly promising topic, as Britain prepares to expand its commercial reach once

it has left the European Union. A formal working group of ministers from the two

countries will ...

COMMENTARY / WORLD DEC 13, 2016

It's more like 1848 than 1930

BY BRAD GLOSSERMAN

The real danger today is that the forces that propelled Trump to the U.S. presidency or

that pushed Britain out of the European Union will not be sated by their recent victories.

COMMENTARY / WORLDDEC 13, 2016

Understanding the geopolitics of populism

BY KISHORE MAHBUBANI

What unites supporters of Donald Trump and the U.K.'s "leave" campaign is not anger at being excluded from the benefits of globalization, but rather a shared sense of unease that they no longer control their own destinies.

COMMENTARY / WORLDDEC 8, 2016

Elites must engage populists

BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY

Populists cannot be eliminated, but they can be co-opted.

WORLD / POLITICSDEC 5, 2016

Renzi quits as Italian populists seek quick vote to win power

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi quit in the early hours of Monday after losing a referendum he'd called to push through constitutional changes, threatening renewed political and financial turmoil for Europe. "I lost, and the post that gets eliminated is mine," Renzi said early Monday ...

WORLD / POLITICSDEC 5, 2016

Austrians in runoff roundly reject far-right presidential candidate

Austrian voters roundly rejected on Sunday a candidate vying to become the first freely elected far-right head of state in Europe since World War II, halting at least temporarily the wave of populism sweeping Western democracies. The runoff vote was a litmus test, since it ...