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Russia cannot conquer Ukraine
Whatever burden Ukraine bears in resisting Russia, the alternative is unthinkable.
Nick Lloyd
February 13, 2025
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Ukraine alone
As Ukraine confronts its western partners' hesitations and appeasements, Israel offers the best lens for understanding the country's future geopolitics.
Christian Caryl
February 13, 2025
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How Iran’s Tanker War shaped Trump’s worldview
The American president has been a longstanding critic of US engagement in policing the Middle East's sea-lanes.
Charlie Laderman
February 12, 2025
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Securonomics belongs to the world of yesterday
Securonomics was based on the fiction that the state can combine dynamic American capitalism with European-style welfarism. Trump’s return to the White House has shattered this ill..
James Vitali
February 10, 2025
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Reform and the long shadow of the Fourth Party
In the 1880s, Randolph Churchill’s band of rebels took on the Conservative Party leadership in the name of ‘Tory Democracy’. Through political dissension and publicity stunts, they..
Harry Cluff
February 7, 2025
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The roots of America’s oil anxiety
President Trump’s call for the United States to ‘Drill, baby, drill!’ is a new riff on a familiar theme. American fears about an overdependence on imported oil have a long lineage ..
Jack Dickens
February 6, 2025
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Will Trump’s Golden Age be a Gilded one?
The claim that Trump represents a resurgence of the ruthless capitalism of the Gilded Age is propaganda, not history. Trump’s blend of economic nationalism and realpolitik more clo..
Michael Lind
February 5, 2025
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A great power carve up
A 1945 land swap between Britain and the Soviet Union shows the enduring consequences for local populations and landscapes when leaders redraw the map.
Suzanne Raine
February 5, 2025
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China’s innovation paradox
China’s DeepSeek is an island of technological excellence, but the country’s AI innovators can only achieve so much without greater political freedom and institutional flexibility.
George Magnus
February 4, 2025