Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
Ukraine's complex history does not neatly fit into modern ideas of nationhood. But Putin's twisted attempts to use history to justify his invasion have generated a remarkable spiri..
Over the past century, religion throughout Europe has been rapidly on the wane. The recent growth of Europe's Muslim population, however, has slowed this trend.
The Holy Alliance, a significant aspect of this post-1815 world, might offer a useful model to shape a legitimate and workable international order of the future.
When the Human Genome Initiative published its first findings in 2002, the world was shocked. Genetic biologists, however, had long ago come to realise that DNA sequences are only ..
Civilisation and development has improved the quality of human life in human societies, but not in a linear way.
Nuclear arsenals constrain us, within limits. They enable dictators, within limits. Those limits matter, whether they are the limits of what we would do to dictators if we could, o..
For more than thirty years, the US has sought to avoid deploying ground forces into protracted conflict. It has nevertheless done so in almost every single one of those years. Perh..
The West’s preoccupation with transparency, debate and consensus has rendered it slow and predictable. In this age of strategic competition, it is imperative that it regains the ab..
The condemnation of the annexation of the Crimea was unified and strong, but the sanctions that followed lacked any real bite.
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