Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
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.
The current refugee crisis is the latest chapter in a history of displacement in the region that embraces two world wars and their aftermath.
Romantic, radical and with an eye to the past, George Orwell's idea of civilisation was multifaceted and at times paradoxical.
Immigration, asylum and naturalisation policies have always been at the heart of great power competition. It is time for American policymakers to begin thinking about how a more en..
With each new peace treaty, the idea of the nation state slowly materialised. Now, in its parliamentarian form, it reigns supreme but in a post-9/11 world it faces increased compet..
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