Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
John Reed’s eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of November 1917 illustrates the enduring themes of political change – and reminds us how contingent it can be.
The EU was forged in the bipolar conditions of the Cold War, expanded under American unipolarity and could plausibly disintegrate as the world returns to a state of bipolarity, thi..
The Russians are pursuing a scorched earth policy in Ukraine as they did in the War of 1812 and after Operation Barbarossa.
Life in China increasingly resembles life on another planet – by Beijing’s deliberate design. If the twenty-first century really is the ‘Chinese Century’, as currently forecast, th..
Japan's attempt to win global power in the Second World War is a warning from history for western policymakers.
Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. That should trouble keen observers of Europe's history.
An automaton chess player bewitched the public of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - but its real value was all-too-human.
War challenges all assumptions, and nowhere is this clearer in Ukraine’s historic – and strategically placed – Black Sea port. Its citizens have – mostly – turned their back on Rus..
Benjamin Constant’s considered response not only to the mass murder inflicted by the French Revolution, but to the attempt to reduce the whole French population to the condition of..
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