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Fiona Hill, distinguished adviser to several US presidents on foreign affairs, spoke to EI’s Jack Dickens about Donald Trump’s fear of nuclear Armageddon, how this fear has shaped ..
In both total wars of the 20th century, liberal, capitalist economies showed themselves to be far more adaptable to its demands than their authoritarian enemies.
Calls for the destruction of India’s Mughal heritage have little to do with religion and a great deal to do with politics.
As Trump’s aggressive trade agenda collides with Japan’s strategic anxieties, the future of East Asia’s most vital relationship hangs in the balance.
For Czechs, Poles, and Russians, the Second World War was a war for Slavic survival — one that Stalin would hijack to forge an empire of his own.
Caught between scepticism and spiritual hunger, the ‘crypto-religious’ are seeking something to believe in outside the parameters of organised religion.
While some later critics accused the correspondent Lafcadio Hearn of exoticising the land of the rising sun, his writings and translations remain historically valuable for their in..
Indian strikes on locations in Pakistan used by Kashmiri Jihadi organisations underline the enduring nature of the conflict, which has special risks for the UK.
Donald Trump’s reported restriction of the President’s Daily Brief represents just the latest change in six decades of ebb and flow in the readership of this top secret, highly cov..
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