Geopolitics A new age of global war Europe believed it had banished war for good. But Russia’s aggression in Ukraine shows we must prepare for armed conflict to become a tool of state… By Margaret MacMillan
How Brexit changed us: Like the Quebecois separatists in Canada, the Leavers campaigned with passion, pride, and no plan for what comes next The British diplomacy is reminiscent of a playground bully, with name-calling and threats interspersed with protestations that we are all… By Margaret MacMillan
Keynes and the cost of peace At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, was one brilliant, self-assured British economist right and all the assembled statesmen… By Margaret MacMillan
What lies beneath: how Europe succumbed to toxic ideology and violence A review of Ian Kershaw and Heinrich August Winkler’s accounts of Europe’s “age of catastrophe”, 1914-49. By Margaret MacMillan