Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
To protect Europe from Russian aggression, Germans must resolve a tension that lies at the heart of their modern national identity: a clash between the ideals of ‘Never Again Fasci..
Antonin Baudry's imaginative adaptation of my biography of de Gaulle, ‘A Certain Idea of France’, raises questions about which liberties film-makers may take when depicting the pas..
For a declining Russia, the Baltic exclave is a bridge too far.
In the postwar period, the US-led world order succeeded in taming efforts to redraw international boundaries by force, but eliminating such impulses entirely is not a realistic bas..
As death approached, the titan of the Scottish Enlightenment found solace in the company of close friends rather than in the hope of religious redemption.
Financial Times columnist Sarah O'Connor speaks to EI's Caitlin Allen about her book, 'We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work', and why we still have control over ho..
The notion of a new world order shaped by the Global South, a reincarnation of the Third World, is a chimera. Middle-power dynamism is the surest way to preserve the Global West in..
Throughout the United States' history, an undercurrent of political violence has competed with the pastoral idealism of the Founding Fathers. It still shapes its national myths.
The history of modern warfare suggests that leaders who are ruthless towards failing ministers and generals are best able to keep their armed forces innovative on the battlefield.
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