Peter Apps

Peter Apps is global affairs commentator at Reuters and a British Army reservist. Exploring how the globalised world of the 1990s and 2000s has given way to the much more volatile face-offs of the 2020s, Peter goes behind the scenes in the corridors of power in Washington, Whitehall, Moscow and Beijing. He profiles the fights already happening to examine what could be the worse to come and the military and diplomatic battle to prevent that escalation. For some, this new era is already a reality. For others, such as European citizens being told to stockpile bottled water or who face possible conscription, it is coming ever closer. But for an unpredictable US and its nervous allies, this growing set of international confrontations from the Arctic to the Philippines represent likely the greatest threat yet to the world the West has built.