The Economist Continental Europe Edition – August 17, 2019

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Contents

The world this week

6 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 Financial markets

The Age of Anxiety

10 Nuclear doctrine

Finger on the button

10 Civil liberties

Speak up

11 Rising seas

A worldwithoutbeaches

12 Zimbabwe

Landofhopeandworry

Letters

14 Ontheteachingofhistory

Briefing

15 Therisingseas

Theworldisnotready

Europe

19 Jihadists return home

20 Salvini stumbles

21 Protests in Russia

21 German GDP shrinks

22 Soviet blocks

24 CharlemagneHow the

EUseesBorisJohnson

Britain

25 Railway reform

26 High-speed rail

Middle East & Africa

27 Zimbabwe’s crisis

28 A power vacuum in

Gabon

29 Rwanda’s odd statistics

29 Chaos in Yemen

30 Speaking French in

Morocco

United States

31 Nuclear weapons

32 Democratic no-hopers

33 Drug markets

33 Trading water

34 Co-pay charities

35 LexingtonBernie

Sanders

The Americas

36 Argentina’s election

37 Guatemala’s new

president

ChaguanWhy

Communist officials

imagine that America is

behind the unrest in

Hong Kong, page 43

On the cover

A dozen years ago investors
were complacent about the
risk of recession. Today they
are overwhelmed by anxiety:
leader,page 9. The effect of
the trade war on America is
frustratingly hard to pin down,
page 53. The world’s monetary
system is breaking: Free
exchange, page 59

• Why Bernie could yet save
  Trump America’s leading
  democratic socialist is unlikely to
  gain the Democratic ticket. But
  he could stop a moderate from
  winning the presidency:
  Lexington,page 35


• Indian business cools on Modi
  Bosses and investors are
  growing disenchanted with their
  champion,page 47


• How to prepare for rising sea
  levelsToday ’s plans are
  inadequate: leader,page 11. The
  water is coming, page 15


• Fooling facial recognitionAs
  the technology spreads, so do
  ideas for subverting it,page 60