, is published by Oxford University Press.How do we decode the “Obama doctrine”?
Jeffrey Goldberg’s 20,000-word write-up of his series of interviews with Obama in the Atlantic makes for fascinating reading. But what does it tell us about the president's strategies?
16 March
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Empire’s martyrs: the British obsession with heroic failure
The British take a perverse pleasure in glorious defeat, as Heroic Failure and the British by Stephanie Barczewski examines.
06 March -
The Syrian War and the return of great power politics
If the line between peace and war is being blurred, so is that between fact and fiction.
15 December -
When it comes to responding to Islamic State, there is no middle ground
If Britain has a declared interest in curtailing Islamic State and stabilising Syria, it is neither honourable nor viable to let others intervene on our behalf.
23 November -
How the home nations qualified
Northern Ireland and Wales will make their mark in France next summer.
29 October -
The Syrian tragedy and the crumbling of world order
Industrial-scale murder, state collapse and huge displacement on Europe’s borders have destroyed old certainties.15 September -
Clement Attlee detested faddish radicalism – you couldn’t say that Jeremy Corbyn is his heir
“The people’s flag is palest pink,” Attlee quipped. “It’s not red blood but only ink.” That slogan should be stamped on the back of the “What would Clem do?” T-shirts that have become fashionable among Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters.
30 July -
The culture wars of the left have contributed to Labour becoming unelectable
Pseudo-radical academics do the same damage to the cause of the political left in Britain as the populist American right does to the Republican Party.
10 June -
Why has foreign affairs been so neglected during the election campaign?
That we've failed to have a serious discussion about foreign policy during the campaign reveals much about our politics.
06 May -
The life and times of the Iron Tulip: Who is Louis van Gaal?
Biographies by Hugo Borst and Maarten Meijer get to know Manchester United's new manager.
26 February
