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The Russian tsar's quest to westernise his country took inspiration from Swedish institutions while dismissing the notion of a literate civil society that animated and sustained th..
After two military defeats and the loss of Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia is betting on peace with Azerbaijan and a future beyond Russia.
A shattered economy and an unbending hostility to Israel could prove far more dangerous to the Islamic Republic's survival than the war itself.
In the 16th century, Sweden’s rulers forged a fiscal-military state capable of projecting power across the Baltic Sea, launching a quest for empire that combined national glory wit..
Five centuries of shared history reveal the Americas as an extension of Europe. Yet today's European leaders cannot formulate a strategy to advance their own interests there.
The last decade, marked by a growing transatlantic rift and Britain's exit from the European Union, has upended longstanding political settlements in both Western Europe and the We..
Bengal's 200-year-old tradition of cosmopolitan liberalism – shaped by British imperialism – is coming to an end, giving way to a reactionary political imagination.
The Laskett in Herefordshire is a testament to Strong’s almost Proustian devotion to memory, a highly personalised landscape full of ideas and follies that evoke sentiments or plac..
Dreamers and philosophers have long been seduced by the idea of a universal symbolic system capable of expressing all human thought.
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