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Europe’s contested borders by BMW
notebook
The Balkan Question
essays
A world of nations and states is here to stay
essays
Napoleonic Europe: how the Emperor built a continent
essays
A little history of the modern Middle East
essays
Myths and realities of Putinism and NATO expansion
essays
The twilight of the Arab state
essays
Strawberry buns at The End of the World Café: thoughts on the Polish-Russian border
notebook
Russia in 2020: alternative scenarios of the near future
essays
Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East
essays
Geopolitics — the key to understanding Russia foreign policy
essays
Ukraine and Russia: how closeness turned into war
essays
War displaces Ukrainians – again
notebook
Inside the Collective Unconscious
essays
Sharing Everest a tall order
notebook
Three victories and a defeat
essays
Contradictions at the heart of an expanding Europe
essays
EI Weekly Listen — Malise Ruthven on the appeal of ISIS
podcasts
Post-apocalyptic nomads
notebook
Israel’s elusive peace
notebook
Victor Hugo’s ideal of Europe
essays
In search of civilisation
essays
New Turkey’s old politics
essays
Alternative international orders: a modern Holy Alliance for the twenty-first century
essays
The return of great power diplomacy
essays
In defence of the Habsburgs
essays
The carrot and the stick — geo-economics and Russian revisionism
essays
What is England really made of?
book-review
Putin bets the Russia house on the Donbas rustbelt
essays
How US policy failure post-9/11 undermined international order
essays
Putin’s Game: How did so many in the West get Russia so wrong?
essays
The Revolt of the European Masses: the disintegration of accountability in supra-national politics
essays
The crusader of good will
essays
How manga shapes Japanese identity
essays
Will Russia be happy as China’s junior partner?
notebook
The swift death of Gorbachev’s USSR set Russia on a path to chaos
essays
EI Weekly Listen — Russia and geopolitics by Anna-Lena Laurén
podcasts
Information war does not exist
essays
How a Second Cold War could have been averted
essays
The Kremlin has its eyes on Gagauzia
notebook
Democracy is no longer a ‘hurray-word’ in West Africa
notebook
Finding Turkey in Narnia
essays
Armenia’s existential moment
essays
The West needs to wake up
essays
2023: The revenge of history
essays
Inside Sudan’s forever war
essays
Russia’s century of scientific autarky
essays
Inside Russia’s forever war against Ukraine
essays
Everything short of war: Hizbollah’s strategy lies in ruins
notebook
Versailles’ splendour unbounded
book-review
Meritocracy v the people
essays
Solzhenitsyn, Putin and the historical myth-making that drives Russian imperialism
notebook
City-states are back
notebook
The Ettrick Shepherd stands watch
notebook
Goodbye, Bella Ciao
notebook
Element of surprise — the West needs to be more unpredictable
essays
The shifting fortunes of IS-Khorasan
book-review
How Russia and Iran have united in antipathy towards the West
essays
Did nationalism exist in the classical world?
essays
Between Westernisers and Slavophiles – the search for Russia’s soul
essays
Étienne Clavière – the revolutionary who hated revolution
portraits
History shows revolutions are a disaster
essays
Ukraine on the move: a century of migration
essays
Geopolitics never went away for the United States
essays
This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic
essays
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
book-review
The story of the Jesuits — how the Society of Jesus charted the world
essays
What the Silicon Valley idealists got wrong
essays
Rethinking the Meiji Restoration
essays
Duality, determinism and demography: The Greeks on geopolitics
essays
Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
essays
What makes a man die for his country?
essays
Head, hand and heart
essays
Who are the modern Greeks?
notebook
Dreaming of Trebizond
notebook
Show’s over: the case against a cultural boycott of Russia
notebook
Hans Rott — a symphonic stepping stone
portraits
The Eurasian Century, Part I: What Mackinder Knew
essays
The geopolitical fight to come over green energy
essays
Geopolitics of a pandemic
essays
Crisis, settlement, or containment — what is to be done on Russia?
essays
Why the nation beat the empire in the battle of 19th century ideas
essays
Spirit-lands and tyrant-kings: differing tales of statehood
essays
Gustav Stresemann — The man who almost saved the world
portraits
Russell Leffingwell – guardian of the American century
portraits
China’s ruling creed at 100: the Party never stops
essays
What does the future of evolution look like?
essays
The economy and the paradox of technology
essays
A tale of three generals — how the Ukrainian military turned the tide
essays
Ukraine can win the peace
essays
Germany in Europe: the engine that couldn’t
essays
Winston Churchill, arch-pragmatist
essays
Books of the Year
book-review
Great Books: E.H. Carr’s Nationalism and After
book-review
Russia’s tragedy is a warning to us all
essays
The year the West woke up
essays
How the GDR fell in love with the West
essays
Capitalism’s Dutch dynamic
book-review
The price of freedom
essays
Czechoslovakia at the centre of history
book-review
A most rebellious territory
essays
Laughing with the Face of God
notebook
Larkin, prophet of postmodernism
book-review
Thomas Jefferson’s spirit of scientific endeavour is what America needs today
essays
The People’s Republic of SF
essays
The weirdness of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
notebook
Ukraine’s long game
notebook
The Bonn Summit and the road to globalisation
essays
A real Russian heart: Aleksandr Dugin, Vladimir Putin and the dangerous new Russian ideology
essays
The ins and outs of the European project
book-review
Ukraine and the West: an alliance by proxy
notebook
The rise and fall of the Creek Confederacy
book-review
Karabakh is no more
notebook
The Entente Cordiale: bad history but good politics
essays
How Israel reset the energy map
essays
Powell and Pressburger worked miracles
book-review
The strange death of private life
essays
‘We need to see these terrorist groups through their own mindsets’ — in conversation with John Sawers
essays
Palestine, pragmatism and the lessons of 1956
essays
Russia, America and the roads not taken
essays
Venezuela’s Essequibo gamble
notebook
The Houthis’ forgotten war goes global
essays
Grey zones and dark tourism in Europe’s hinterlands
essays
The fall and rise of Marwan Barghouti
essays
Despatch from Kharkiv
notebook
All hail King Zog?
book-review
Mapping Pompeii’s undiscovered country
notebook
Reappraising NATO, 1956 style
essays
The rise of the great power carve up
essays
NATO’s next act
book-review
The Saddam files and the battle for Iraqi history
essays
The struggle for Saudi Arabia’s buried past
essays
Ukraine in Kursk: a lesson in strategic audacity
notebook
Saxony and the return of the Third Germany
essays
Ancient India’s global reach
book-review
Tehran’s endgame
notebook
The deep historical roots of Russia’s militarisation of the Arctic
notebook
The wages of Putin’s war
notebook
Somaliland’s race for recognition
notebook
The Syrian war never really ended
notebook
Russia’s shadow war for Eastern Europe
notebook
Why Assad’s fall took the world by surprise
notebook
The past, an enduring guide to the future
essays
Blood on the Tracks turns 50
notebook
America’s retreat from free trade
book-review
Infrastructure power
essays
A great power carve up
notebook
On the myth of multiculturalism
essays
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