Books How oil become the world’s most contested resource Keith Fisher’s A Pipeline Runs Through It charts how oil revolutionised transport and war, and continues to shape today’s geopolitics. By Brendan Simms
Geopolitics What Hitler’s war with America reveals about today’s great power rivalries By Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman
Northern Ireland From backdoor to backstop: Ireland’s shifting relationship with Britain and Europe By Brendan Simms
The buried Nazism of expressionist Emil Nolde The renowned painter Emil Nolde denied his Nazism by the end of the war. But a new exhibition reveals… By Brendan Simms and Constance Simms
Hitler’s long shadow By the turn of the millennium, it seemed that the Führer and Nazism had not just been comprehensively defeated but… By Brendan Simms
Europe’s new Reformation Five hundred years ago a political and religious crisis tore Europe apart. Now the continent is entering another age… By Brendan Simms
An accidental prime minister: the underrated career of the pragmatic Lord Liverpool In the age of Putin and Assad, British politics could learn a lesson from Liverpool. By Brendan Simms
Europe after the storm: how Emmanuel Macron plans to transform the EU The French president has a vision to lead the deadlocked EU out of crisis and towards greater integration. But… By Brendan Simms
The world after Brexit The crucial variable is not British power but the weakness of Europe. By Brendan Simms
A world unbalanced Under Trump, the United States could turn away from Europe, leaving the continent exposed and vulnerable. So is it… By Brendan Simms