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Europe’s contested borders by BMW

The Balkan Question

A world of nations and states is here to stay

Napoleonic Europe: how the Emperor built a continent

A little history of the modern Middle East

Myths and realities of Putinism and NATO expansion

The twilight of the Arab state

A Russian nation struggles to be born

Strawberry buns at The End of the World Café: thoughts on the Polish-Russian border

Russia in 2020: alternative scenarios of the near future

Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East

Geopolitics — the key to understanding Russia foreign policy

Ukraine and Russia: how closeness turned into war

War displaces Ukrainians – again

Inside the Collective Unconscious

Sharing Everest a tall order

Three victories and a defeat

Contradictions at the heart of an expanding Europe

EI Weekly Listen — Malise Ruthven on the appeal of ISIS

Post-apocalyptic nomads

Israel’s elusive peace

The perils of partition

Must Europe always take every opportunity to miss an opportunity?

Victor Hugo’s ideal of Europe

In search of civilisation

New Turkey’s old politics

Alternative international orders: a modern Holy Alliance for the twenty-first century

The return of great power diplomacy

In defence of the Habsburgs

The carrot and the stick — geo-economics and Russian revisionism

What is England really made of?

Putin bets the Russia house on the Donbas rustbelt

How US policy failure post-9/11 undermined international order

Putin’s Game: How did so many in the West get Russia so wrong?

The Revolt of the European Masses: the disintegration of accountability in supra-national politics

The crusader of good will

How manga shapes Japanese identity

Will Russia be happy as China’s junior partner?

The swift death of Gorbachev’s USSR set Russia on a path to chaos

EI Weekly Listen — Russia and geopolitics by Anna-Lena Laurén

Information war does not exist

How a Second Cold War could have been averted

The Kremlin has its eyes on Gagauzia

Democracy is no longer a ‘hurray-word’ in West Africa

Finding Turkey in Narnia

Armenia’s existential moment

The West needs to wake up

2023: The revenge of history

Inside Sudan’s forever war

Russia’s century of scientific autarky

Inside Russia’s forever war against Ukraine

Everything short of war: Hizbollah’s strategy lies in ruins

Versailles’ splendour unbounded

The perils of Russian stability under Putin

How to save imperial history

Where is Russia’s place in the world?

The precarious future of NATO’s open door policy

Meritocracy v the people

Solzhenitsyn, Putin and the historical myth-making that drives Russian imperialism

City-states are back

The Ettrick Shepherd stands watch

Goodbye, Bella Ciao

Element of surprise — the West needs to be more unpredictable

The shifting fortunes of IS-Khorasan

How Russia and Iran have united in antipathy towards the West

Did nationalism exist in the classical world?

Between Westernisers and Slavophiles – the search for Russia’s soul

Étienne Clavière – the revolutionary who hated revolution

History shows revolutions are a disaster

Ukraine on the move: a century of migration

Geopolitics never went away for the United States

This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic

Statecraft for an age of blood and iron — The Strategy of Denial: American Defence in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Elbridge Colby review

The story of the Jesuits — how the Society of Jesus charted the world

What the Silicon Valley idealists got wrong

Rethinking the Meiji Restoration

Duality, determinism and demography: The Greeks on geopolitics

Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics

What makes a man die for his country?

Head, hand and heart

Who are the modern Greeks?

Dreaming of Trebizond

Show’s over: the case against a cultural boycott of Russia

Hans Rott — a symphonic stepping stone

The Eurasian Century, Part I: What Mackinder Knew

The geopolitical fight to come over green energy

Geopolitics of a pandemic

Crisis, settlement, or containment — what is to be done on Russia?

Why the nation beat the empire in the battle of 19th century ideas

Spirit-lands and tyrant-kings: differing tales of statehood

Gustav Stresemann — The man who almost saved the world

Russell Leffingwell – guardian of the American century

China’s ruling creed at 100: the Party never stops

What does the future of evolution look like?

The economy and the paradox of technology

A tale of three generals — how the Ukrainian military turned the tide

Ukraine can win the peace

Germany in Europe: the engine that couldn’t

Winston Churchill, arch-pragmatist

Books of the Year

Great Books: E.H. Carr’s Nationalism and After

Russia’s tragedy is a warning to us all

The year the West woke up

How the GDR fell in love with the West

Capitalism’s Dutch dynamic

The price of freedom

Czechoslovakia at the centre of history

A most rebellious territory

Laughing with the Face of God

Larkin, prophet of postmodernism

Thomas Jefferson’s spirit of scientific endeavour is what America needs today

The People’s Republic of SF

The weirdness of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

Ukraine’s long game

The Bonn Summit and the road to globalisation

A real Russian heart: Aleksandr Dugin, Vladimir Putin and the dangerous new Russian ideology

The ins and outs of the European project

Ukraine and the West: an alliance by proxy

The rise and fall of the Creek Confederacy

Karabakh is no more

The Entente Cordiale: bad history but good politics

How Israel reset the energy map

Powell and Pressburger worked miracles

The strange death of private life

‘We need to see these terrorist groups through their own mindsets’ — in conversation with John Sawers

Palestine, pragmatism and the lessons of 1956

Russia, America and the roads not taken

Venezuela’s Essequibo gamble

The Houthis’ forgotten war goes global

Grey zones and dark tourism in Europe’s hinterlands

The fall and rise of Marwan Barghouti

Despatch from Kharkiv

All hail King Zog?

Mapping Pompeii’s undiscovered country

Reappraising NATO, 1956 style

The rise of the great power carve up

NATO’s next act

The Saddam files and the battle for Iraqi history

The struggle for Saudi Arabia’s buried past

Ukraine in Kursk: a lesson in strategic audacity

Saxony and the return of the Third Germany

Ancient India’s global reach

Tehran’s endgame

The deep historical roots of Russia’s militarisation of the Arctic

The wages of Putin’s war

Somaliland’s race for recognition

The Syrian war never really ended

Russia’s shadow war for Eastern Europe

Why Assad’s fall took the world by surprise

The past, an enduring guide to the future

Blood on the Tracks turns 50

America’s retreat from free trade

Infrastructure power

A great power carve up

Ukraine alone

The wages of a nuclear war

Russia cannot conquer Ukraine

Europe’s reckoning with history

The 18th century way of war

Wandering through the Carpathian Mountains

The transatlantic alliance is fractured, not broken

The revolt of Germany’s working class

My journey to a defiant Ukraine

England’s mystical inheritance

Interest rates, mankind’s greatest invention

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

John Law, the man who blew up the French economy

South Korea’s crisis could be a geopolitical catastrophe

When free trade falters

Nazism’s downfall and the aftermath of war

Countryside writing’s rebirth

Why liberal democracies win total wars

The rise of the gerontocrats

Theodore Roosevelt’s lessons in global power

The West in the age of Westlessness

The unravelling of the rock festival

The importance of strategic depth

Agent Zo, the spy who saved Poland

On the myth of multiculturalism