Mary Dejevsky

The US president can rarely be accused of playing the long game, but calling for the arrest of 94-year-old former leader Raul Castro could be a sign he is learning from his foreign policy blunders – and that he wants a regime change he can be proud of, says Mary Dejevsky

When Donald Trump said that he would probably not be attending his son’s wedding, citing “a thing called Iran and other things”, and when his Vice-President suddenly changed his weekend plans to return to Washington, it was not hard to imagine the worst. That worst, from a great many perspectives, was that the US President had decided to end the ceasefire with Iran and act on his earlier threat to destroy its “whole civilisation”.

The president’s casual menacing of a long-standing Gulf ally may yet be a turning point for US relations with the several Middle East states – including Israel, says Mary Dejevsky

Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘crazy’ fallout with Donald Trump this week has strengthened the feeling within Israel that it has become a country that its own citizens cannot recognise, says Mary Dejevsky

Not for the first time, politicians seem to be making more of the violent public response to an atrocity than they are to the atrocity itself.

The fluid arrangement between Ireland and the UK was a diplomatic fudge long before Britain left the European Union – but the violence unleashed by a knife attack has called this gentlemanly agreement into question, says Mary Dejevsky

A Versailles backdrop may have delivered political theatre, but what looks like a breakthrough in US-Iran relations leaves more questions than answers, says Mary Dejevsky

In Mary Dejevsky’s last regular column for The Independent, she reflects on growing up in 1970s Britain, being a poster girl for the ‘Europe generation’, and why it looks increasingly unlikely there will ever be a return to that golden age

Outside of war, big political shifts can take a long time to have an effect. My late mother-in-law, who was born in Vinnytsia when Ukraine was still

Ukraine’s drone strikes have caused serious damage, but Putin is not about to raise the white flag.