The unintended consequences of the American Revolution
Despite the United States' resplendent origin myths, the motivations for the complex and confused events of 1775-83 now appear as diverse as their participants.
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Despite the United States' resplendent origin myths, the motivations for the complex and confused events of 1775-83 now appear as diverse as their participants.
Longstanding scepticism towards US foreign policy has forced Europe to prepare for a new world order without America at its centre.
London must establish its own vision for the nuclear defence of Europe, one shorn of fashionable shibboleths about the British and French arsenals, and rooted in long-term strategi..
Those attempting to secure a diplomatic bargain between the United States and Iran should draw lessons from the historic peace deal struck by Israel and Egypt after the Yom Kippur ..
The fracturing of politics in Peninsular Malaysia has shattered the Malay-Muslim ascendancy that shaped the country.
In 1955, leaders from Asia and Africa convened to assert their independence from superpower blocs, sowing the seeds of the Non-Aligned Movement.
The rival city-states were radically different expressions of a wider Classical Greek world, with each representing a divergent – and competing – experiment in how to organise huma..
Economic warfare works slowly, gradually imposing ever higher costs on the enemy. But there is no single trick that causes an adversary's war effort to falter.
Eighty years since its creation, the UN is struggling to compete in an ever more fragmented geopolitical landscape, in which rival organisations present a fundamental challenge to ..