“Is this how Rome treats its heroes?” These words echo across the Colosseum in Gladiator II. They are spoken by Acacius, a soldier who had given everything to Rome, only to be condemned by two ruling brothers whose vanity was greater than their sense of...

The post-Cold War order is unravelling. The global trading system and the multilateral order, painstakingly built after the Second World War, have been torn apart. What once stood as a framework for cooperation is now a weapon of mass bullying. Trade wars strike like sudden...