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From diplomacy in the Middle East to security ties with the Persian Gulf, the key to understanding India’s expanding role on the international stage lies in the strategic vision an..
The origins of wine and viticulture are found in the distant Greek past, a world of drunken gods and bibulous heroes.
Conditioned by the hot and cold wars of the 20th century, Americans tend to believe that competition should culminate in total victory. The US should instead embrace competitive co..
His explanation of the origins of the Industrial Revolution makes Joel Mokyr a worthy recipient of the Nobel Prize for economics.
A new aerial war is being fought over Europe, just as it was fought during the Second World War. It, too, is reliant on cutting-edge technology, whose potential has yet to be fully..
A failed rebellion led by a Kurdish holy man a century ago still looms large over tensions between the Turkish government and its country’s largest minority.
As the AI revolution continues to gather pace, Western nations need to rethink their relations with African governments. If they do not, China and Russia will win the geopolitical ..
Many perceive Italy as a country divided between an economically prosperous North and an impoverished, agrarian South. The origins of this divergence lie in a 19th-century ‘black l..
The pioneering work of a 16th-century Polish geographer radically transformed Renaissance understandings of Europe's eastern frontiers, paving the way for Russia's later inclusion ..
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