Thank you for reading Engelsberg Ideas this year. We hope you’ve enjoyed our writing and podcasts featuring leading academics, commentators and authors. Below is a selection of some of the highlights from 2025.

We wish you a Happy New Year.

A warning to the young: just say no to AI — Aaron MacLean

Nazism’s downfall and the aftermath of war — Antony Beevor

Russia’s age of contraction — Daniel Peris

Stephen Kotkin on a new age of warfare — The EI Podcast

Paul Kennedy in conversation on the rise of a new era of great power competition

Fiona Hill in conversation on Donald Trump’s nuclear nightmares

The man who brought Sweden in from the cold — Rikard Westerberg

Turin, the strange heart of modern Italy — Alexandra Wilson

Kashmir’s forgotten war goes global — Suzanne Raine

India’s war on the Mughal Empire — Richard M. Eaton

Is China’s mercantilism cracking up? — George Magnus

The espionage revolution — David Omand

The tragedy of Richard II and Henry VI — Helen Castor

The deep history behind America’s Greenland gambit — James Graham Wilson

Inside the world of medieval espionage — Jonathan Sumption

Essaying Montaigne — David Wootton

A new Syria struggles to be born — Shiraz Maher