Karim Haddad
World Affairs Correspondent
Karim covers geopolitics, multilateral institutions and the systems that keep the world running — trade routes, treaties and the places where they strain.
Articles by Karim Haddad
World
Four Narrow Waterways Carry the World's Trade. Here Is What Happens When One Closes.
Suez, Panama, Hormuz, Malacca: the global economy runs through a handful of chokepoints most people never think about — until they jam.
World
The Veto: How Five Countries Can Stop the United Nations, and Why That Was the Point
The Security Council's veto is the most criticised feature of the UN — and the reason the UN exists at all. An explainer.
World
More People Are Displaced Than Ever. The System Meant to Protect Them Was Built for a Different Century.
Over 120 million people are forcibly displaced, on UNHCR's count. The 1951 rules that govern their treatment were written for post-war Europe.