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Joe Biden's political career began during the Vietnam War and the shadow of that conflict has shaped his view of America's role in the world in the five decades since.
The Tsarist administration, the Bolshevik NKVD and its successor agencies under Putin have all constrained and distorted the scientific project in Russia. Their legacy is one of th..
A market-based approach to conflict misses essential elements of why, despite interdependence and the emergence of international norms, wars that make little rational sense continu..
During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the American military seized millions of pages of secret documents from Saddam Hussein's regime, setting off an ongoing battle for the control of ..
Nazi historiographers sought to present Adolf Hitler as the heir to Charlemagne. They are neither the first, nor the last, to mythologise Charlemagne and attempt to shape his legac..
If Britain is to reckon with its present economic sickness, it will require a cultural transformation of an epic scale. The triumph of Singapore in the 20th century may offer a gui..
Tolstoy’s novella Hadji Murat resonates with enduring themes of betrayal, collaboration and resistance in Russia's wars in its Caucasus borderlands.
In the First World War, British and French composers created music to commemorate the dead, but they also celebrated the way that art could transcend the divisions wrought by confl..
Radical Islamism remains a potent threat. Despite the military defeat of ISIS, the idea of the Caliphate, with its programme of terror and violence, endures.
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