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The current violence and turmoil in the Middle East is expressive of a conflict between rival ideas, between the modern nation state and an old, historical concept of an Islamic ca..
Humberstone in Chile, now a ghost town, was once the centre of the saltpetre industry, a chemical compound useful for gunpowder and fertiliser. Its changing fortunes offer a parabl..
The Five Eyes network represents one of the closest partnerships between nation states in history - how did it come into being? And what explains its remarkable durability?
We live in an age that is deeply pessimistic about the human condition. But the retreat from human exceptionalism makes for both bad science and bad politics.
In the decade following the fall of the Wall, Vienna went from Cold War staging post to modern European capital and change swept the entire region.
The early modern Italian republics are often portrayed as models of bad government. But the fusion of civic humanism and Christianity they championed endures to this day.
The Japanese once celebrated the Meiji period as an optimistic and outward-looking era. But relative decline has led Japan's youth to embrace 'hikikomori', a philosophy of national..
The struggle for sustainable energy will soon put China, the US and Europe on a geopolitical collision course. But moving away from fossil fuels is a Herculean task, and a greener ..
In 1996 John Perry Barlow penned his 'Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace'. The war between politicians and tech-idealists had just begun.
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