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Throughout the ages, oracles, journalists and political scientists have attempted to guess the course fate may take. But should they fail to take the specifics, particularly specif..
Realism at its core is the capacity to look at the world without euphemism. In that spirit, Thucydides is a tonic to wishful thinking.
The idea that 'real religion' in ancient Greece is to be found only in the so-called 'mystery' cults, that is, cults involving initiatory rituals, dies hard.
There are three principal and often conflicting aims when it comes to energy policy: reducing carbon emissions, consumer protection and the security of supply. When the politics of..
Alfred Thayer Mahan's writings on naval warfare have overshadowed his contributions to geopolitics. His theories, however, are clearly playing out today.
The West’s Russia problem is going to be protracted; now is the time for a strategic decision as to what ends to pursue.
The era in world history that began with the fall of the Soviet Union is drawing to its close. The post-Cold War Eurasian settlement that the United States and its allies imposed a..
The Soviet collapse pointed to the possibility of great reversals and historic surprises. In invading Ukraine Putin may have sealed the demise of his political enterprise.
Geography and politics are closely intertwined, although that no more means that all geography is political than that all politics is geographical.
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