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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..
The lack of transparency over NATO expansion can be linked to the Russian leader’s mythologising over his country’s epic struggle.
For the past sixty years, the use of nuclear weapons has become unthinkable. But with every conflict there comes a point where the unthinkable becomes possible.
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