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As the ancient city of Edo evolved into Tokyo, Japan's capital, much was lost but a great deal was gained. For better and for worse, Japan’s emergence as Asia’s first modern power ..
Trump's America First policy echoes the ambivalence that emerged after the Second World War among many American policymakers towards the defence of Europe.
The market forces of supply and demand applied to Ancient Rome as much as anywhere. But two essential goals of the Roman state complicated matters: the capital’s need for grain, an..
The Cold War was a conflict marked by endemic deception and secrecy. Dr Strangelove, its greatest satire, highlights that the era's sense of imminent, invisible threat still haunts..
The myths of origin that give the United States its distinctive character and political culture remain potent, in spite of a lack of historical underpinning.
Ernest Bevin, Labour foreign secretary between 1945 and 1951, was a visionary who held that political values and moral principles were at the core of a nation’s foreign policy.
A world of machine art would be an eerie one. Art connects us to one another. We cannot, and we should not, replace that connection with an uncanny simulacrum of it.
The posthumous struggle to define the legacy of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the thuggish mercenary entrepreneur apparently killed by the Kremlin last year, presents a problem for Russia’s o..
As tensions rise between China and the US over Taiwan, it is crucial that a mutual deterrence, similar to that of the 'first' Cold War, is established between the two superpowers.
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