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Russian history rhymes — from Soviet collapse to Putin’s folly
essays
A ship without a captain — Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok review
book-review
Russia in 2020: alternative scenarios of the near future
essays
The Eurasian Century, Part IV: Cold War
essays
The triumph of the Motherland
essays
Myths and realities of Putinism and NATO expansion
essays
Outside in, inside out: Russia as an empire on the periphery
essays
Gorbachev did not end the Cold War alone — the West won
notebook
How Russia and Iran have united in antipathy towards the West
essays
Russia and the West – the path not taken
essays
Decline in three dimensions
essays
The swift death of Gorbachev’s USSR set Russia on a path to chaos
essays
Soviet socialism was no good at groceries
notebook
Great Books: William Golding’s The Spire
book-review
Bad history — why the Treaty of Versailles is an imperfect guide to future Russia-West relations
notebook
Nehemiah Wallington – Puritan chronicler had far less fun than Pepys
portraits
A little history of the modern Middle East
essays
Empire and development in First Millennium Europe
essays
Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
essays
Alexander Helphand — impresario of revolutionary disaster who smoothed Lenin’s return to Russia
portraits
What does the future of evolution look like?
essays
The decay and renewal of the American constitutional order
essays
Meritocracy v the people
essays
Solzhenitsyn, Putin and the historical myth-making that drives Russian imperialism
notebook
What Putin learnt from NATO’s 1999 intervention in Kosovo
notebook
The shifting fortunes of IS-Khorasan
book-review
Jacques Rueff’s quest for monetary order
essays
Modern France and the ghosts of the past
essays
Ukraine on the move: a century of migration
essays
Unipolar America: another imperial delusion ends
essays
To avoid a dictatorship of scholars
essays
The march of the sovereign individuals
notebook
Cubans are losing their fear
notebook
The old republic of Europe
essays
Fritz Mannheimer – stockbroker of peace
portraits
Geopolitics and the Mongol Empire
essays
Napoleonic Europe: how the Emperor built a continent
essays
Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East
essays
History while it’s still smoking
essays
Putin bets the Russia house on the Donbas rustbelt
essays
Confucius, competition and modern China’s misuse of meritocracy
essays
Inside the Collective Unconscious
essays
When did sexual decadence lose its association with social decline?
essays
Future proof
essays
Learning from the big, bold 1990s debates over the post-Cold War world
notebook
Putin’s Game: How did so many in the West get Russia so wrong?
essays
Counting the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
essays
The world that saltpetre built
essays
Will Russia be happy as China’s junior partner?
notebook
As the Arctic thaws, are we able to keep its peace?
essays
Kazakhstan’s Russia problem
notebook
Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto-gold turned to dust
notebook
How the GDR fell in love with the West
essays
From broken windows to bulldozers
essays
God is back
essays
The strange birth of the European
essays
The end of history ends
essays
The ancient roots of the modern holy war
essays
Yugoslavia and the ghosts of nationalism
notebook
Machiavelli and the benefits of civil strife
essays
The war against printing
essays
Knowing Russia was going to invade Ukraine was not enough
notebook
Khorloogiin Choibalsan — Stalin of the steppe
portraits
Akinpelu Obisesan — a gentleman diarist in colonial Africa
portraits
The world that Vasco da Gama built
essays
Basil Liddell Hart and the Art of Peace
portraits
Can warfare ever be considered modern?
essays
The Nation in Arms: Myth or reality?
essays
Why the idea of Carthage survived Roman conquest
essays
The transformation of Mitteleuropa
essays
How war created the nation state and yet could destroy it
essays
This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic
essays
The polymath in the age of specialisation
essays
Thucydides was a Realist
essays
Christianity in a cold climate – Jesuit encounters with Japan
essays
Rethinking the Meiji Restoration
essays
Was Horace a town or a country mouse?
notebook
Nafissa Sid Cara — an ambiguous pioneer for Muslim women
portraits
Duality, determinism and demography: The Greeks on geopolitics
essays
Chiang Ching-kuo — dictator or democrat?
portraits
Time running out in China’s waiting game — The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi review
book-review
Margaret Thatcher – the fall, thirty years on
essays
Shaping society — The Making of Our Urban Landscape by Geoffrey Tyack review
book-review
Meet the Zoomer generation
essays
Waugh’s war
notebook
Inside the disinformation forever war
essays
How Arcadia was won and lost and found again
essays
Globalisation — lessons from George Canning on how to remake trade
essays
Ukraine and Russia: how closeness turned into war
essays
Reassessing Christian history
essays
A world of nations and states is here to stay
essays
Why Jihadists write poetry
essays
Jaan Kross — a writer’s route to happiness
portraits
The tragic tradition of Ukraine’s Sviatohirsk Lavra
notebook
The Soviet military was a hollow colossus
essays
How US policy failure post-9/11 undermined international order
essays
Where has ‘the good life’ gone?
essays
Dunwich’s very English apocalypse
notebook
The problem of power in Russia
essays
Why do politicians get energy policy wrong?
essays
Survival lessons from Ancient Rome
essays
Continuity Thatcher: rescuing a complex leader from historical cliché
essays
The Eurasian Century, Part II: The Great Black Tornado
essays
Nijinsky’s last dance
notebook
Is energy the god of progress?
notebook
Geopolitics of a pandemic
essays
The forgotten lessons of First World War strategy
essays
When disaster strikes
essays
Crisis, settlement, or containment — what is to be done on Russia?
essays
Despotism or anarchy? — Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East by Jonathan Parry review
book-review
Rethinking geopolitics
essays
Imperial Germany – mighty aristocracy or modern meritocracy?
notebook
What is the purpose of existence?
essays
The Queen, Stoicism and the defence of the Faith
notebook
The geopolitics and grand strategy of Alfred Thayer Mahan
essays
Rousseau and the barbarity of education
essays
The 1920 Battle for Ukraine — a warning from the past
notebook
Gustav Stresemann — The man who almost saved the world
portraits
Frederic Prokosch — freedom in fiction
portraits
James Flint – a sino-pioneer ahead of his time
portraits
Fighting in the shadows
essays
From miracles to massacres – Japan’s tumultuous 20th century
essays
2020: Putting our pandemic in perspective
essays
Mikhail Gorbachev gave Russia a chance
essays
The Pacific Century is here — but not as advertised
notebook
Bond or Blofeld: war, espionage and secrecy in the twenty-first century
essays
The economy and the paradox of technology
essays
The truth shall set us free
essays
Digital revolution: a splash in the cognitive space?
essays
How the individual invented the modern West
essays
Brick is best
notebook
Great Books: The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli
book-review
Great Books: I Viceré by Federico De Roberto
book-review
A very medieval cost of living crisis
notebook
Books of the Year
book-review
Information war does not exist
essays
Breaking the nuclear taboo
essays
Reclaiming Christian freedom for the modern age
essays
A Year in Ideas
essays
In defence of shareholder democracy
essays
Napoleon’s trouble on the home front
notebook
What does Xi Jinping really think?
essays
Is there hope for Russia after Putin?
essays
The Arab Awakening: when the dream met reality
essays
Worldview — what is the future of the West?
podcasts
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