Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
Co-operation between Seoul and Tokyo must be formalised beyond leader-to-leader statements if East Asia is to counter collective threats from coercive authoritarian actors.
In classical India, Bharata’s 'Natyashastra' conceived of art as sacred knowledge, in stark contrast to the diminished role aesthetic experience occupies today.
Moscow is marking Victory Day with little cause for celebration. Modern Russia has no coherent ideology to export and Putin's attempt to revive Soviet-era global influence is visib..
External actors have long imagined Iran as a collection of detachable ethnic blocs. In practice, its communities are so historically intertwined that separatism is almost inconceiv..
The Trump administration brought military supremacy to a geo-economic fight. The 21st century now has its own logic of mutually assured destruction.
The postwar world was built on a quintet of myths – the end of the world, the hero, the monster, the martyr and the final resurrection. They were the glue that held the internation..
For all its elevated sense of history and institutional self-worth, the modern British civil service owes its origins, in part, to China.
Once a sacred duty, hospitality was also a test of how societies welcomed strangers.
The chaos of the Trump Administration and a coming intergenerational transfer of wealth to millennials may revive Obama-style technocracy, shorn of progressive excesses.
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