May 18th 2013

Japan’s master plan

The world this week

Leaders

Japan

Abe’s master plan

Shinzo Abe has a vision of a prosperous and patriotic Japan. The economics looks better than the nationalism

Disaster in Syria

The least-bad choice

Step up the campaign for a diplomatic solution—and back the rebels more strongly

Psychiatry

Shrink wrapping

A single book has come to dominate psychiatry. That is dangerous

Pakistan

Hope in a fractured land

Building a normal relationship with India should be Nawaz Sharif’s priority

Guidance for insects

Brood 2030

How America will look to the cicadas when they next return

Letters

On employment, the West Bank, stop-and-search, Africa's natural resources, medieval physics, boar hunting, China's dream

Briefing

Japan and Abenomics

Once more with feeling

The Shinzo Abe shaking up Japan’s economy seems a different man from the one whose previous premiership was marked by nationalistic posturing. He isn’t

United States

Barack Obama and the presidency

W’s apprentice

Democrats in Texas

The waiting is the hardest part

The Justice Department and the Associated Press

Look who’s talking

Nevada’s economy

Silver dollars

Cage-fighting in New York

No holds, barred

Debt and the deficit

Priority report

Lexington

Notes on three scandals

The Americas

Latin American geoeconomics

A continental divide

British Columbia’s election

It’s the economy, stupid

The media in Argentina

Clarín call

Justice in Guatemala

The genocide question

Asia

Pakistan’s election

Hope over experience

Pakistan’s waning feudalism

Gone with the wind

Australia’s pre-election budget

Feel-good deficit

Philippine elections

Personality-driven

Logging in South-East Asia

Rubber barons

Banyan

Seas of troubles

China

Economic reforms

Walking the talk

Corruption

Checked and balanced?

Middle East & Africa

Syria’s civil war

The hard men on both sides prevail

Syria’s chemical weapons

The other red line

Iran’s election

A candidacy conundrum

Arabs and Jews in high-tech Israel

Bring them together

Religious politics in Israel

Who’s a Jew?

Zambia

Sata pack

Terrorism in Nigeria

Bigger guns

Europe

Turkey and Syria

An explosive border

Turkey’s political imams

The Gulenists fight back

Spy wars in Russia

The Kremlin plot thickens

Bulgarian politics

An unhappy election

Italian politics

Silvio’s back

French public opinion

Morosity rules

Charlemagne

What is the alternative?

Britain

Politics and the EU

Take me to your leader

Britain’s changing trade links

An island of traders

The motorcycle industry

Hell’s commuters

Business and politics

The thick of it

Muslim converts

Changing my religion

Shopping habits

In for a pound

The Co-operative

On the brink

Bagehot

The Atlanticist delusion

Correction: RBS

International

Civic crowdfunding

Breaking ground

Arctic diplomacy

A warmer welcome

Hijackings on the high seas

Westward Ho!

Business

Marketing

Less guff, more puff

Energy drinks

Buzz kill

Sony under fire

Goodbye, Mr Bond?

Sino-European trade tensions

On hold

Tata Steel

Goodwill hunting

Brazil’s oilfields

Back in business

Open data

A new goldmine

Business in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Murky minerals

Schumpeter

A hospital case

Correction: Boston Consulting Group

Finance & economics

Trading in oil

Libor in a barrel

Global property markets

Boom and gloom

Bloomberg

Too much information

Buttonwood

Caveat voter

Turkish banks

The lure of the Bosphorus

The euro-zone economy

Recession, cont’d

Stockmarkets

Don’t worry, be happy

Free exchange

The humble hero

Science & technology

DSM-5

By the book

Quantum computing

Faster, slower—or both at once?

Flu vaccines and synthetic biology

Going viral

Safer childbirth in Bangladesh

Mat red

Books & arts

North Korea

Follow my leader

The financial crisis

Three men in a boat

Telling jokes

Have you heard the one…

How money works

Gold rush

A writer’s life

Literary lion

The Walpole masterpieces