American hubris
The US is addicted to greatness – and haunted by its loss.
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Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze is a historian and the author of Shutdown and Crashed.
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John Mearsheimer and the dark origins of realism
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Can Europe tame pandemonium?
Covid-19 brought the EU together — the crisis in Ukraine may now tear it apart.
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