Prof John Bew CMGWhat’s Britain’s Place in the Post-Iran World Order?
Read moreMidway through James Joyce’s Ulysses, the character J.J. O’Molloy tips his hat to ‘Our watchful friend, the Skibbereen Eagle’, a…
Prof John Bew CMGBritish Statecraft Needs More Than Internationalist Legal Orthodoxy
Read moreThe Government’s maximalist interpretation of public international law leaves Britain unprepared for the emerging world When the British Foreign Secretary Lord…
Prof John Bew CMGDon’t Let Britain Decline
Read moreThe Fourth Great Disruption is here In 1940, John Maynard Keynes cut a frustrated figure. It was clear to him…
Prof John Bew CMGInside the White House Situation Room
Read moreHillary Clinton and others explore the psychology behind the decisions that shape history It is one of the defining images…
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The Age of Invasion
Read moreHow Trump’s new global strategy will assert Washington’s hemispheric ambitions When a US presidential election race enters its final stages,…
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The World According to Henry Kissinger
Read moreJérémie Gallon’s biography charts how the German émigré’s realpolitik diplomacy continues to shape the international order On 9 November 1944,…
Prof John Bew CMGPursuing Pole Position
Read moreHow Whitehall and Westminster planned for a new world order. No sooner had VE Day arrived in May 1945 than…
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For Trump et al, the Personal is Always Political
Read moreIn an era of rapid technological advancement, it’s disconcerting that gut instinct and snap judgments by many leaders shape our…
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How the CIA Lost the War on Terror
Read moreIn The Mission, Tim Weiner argues that the agency’s past 25 years have been defined by scandal, psychodrama and human…
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Meet the President’s Main Man
Read moreAn elegant portrait of Jimmy Carter’s hawkish security adviser reveals him to be a pivotal figure in cold war policy.…
