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On betrayal
Espionage feeds off betrayal. And yet we find it difficult to love those who betray their country even in a just cause.
Christopher Coker
December 15, 2020
Essays
Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
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The indispensable foreign correspondent
The communications revolution has transformed the context of war reporting. And yet the traditional role of the foreign correspondent is still essential.
Isabel Hilton
December 11, 2020
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Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
Thucydides saw plague as a disease of the ‘body politic’ – and an opportunity to improve the health of society. History shows that pandemics have a way of disrupting our assumption..
Mark Honigsbaum
December 10, 2020
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In search of Lebensraum
Hitler's conviction that a new Eurasian order should be constructed with Germany at its zenith had its ideological roots in the early science of geopolitics.
Richard Overy
December 4, 2020
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China rethinking its role
With China positioning itself as a leader on the world stage, its government is drawing on memories of the role the country played in shaping the post-War order. This raises tough..
Rana Mitter
December 4, 2020
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The world that Vasco da Gama built
Portugal’s commercial dominance of large swathes of the world lasted little more than a century but the images, transmissions, and trades that it engendered left a significant and ..
Roger Crowley
November 27, 2020
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Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement
The tension between independence and compliance is everywhere in society – but in medicine, reason must come before rules.
David Seedhouse
November 25, 2020
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Margaret Thatcher – the fall, thirty years on
On 22 November 1990 the Tory leader resigned. What forces brought about the end of her extraordinary premiership?
Bruce Anderson
November 20, 2020
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Late Beauties of the British Empire
From the Archive - first published in Empire and the Future World Order (2005) after the Engelsberg Seminar. The late beauties of empire represented all that was best in the Britis..
Jan Morris
November 20, 2020