From Louise Glück to Rachel Aviv: recent books reviewed in short
Also featuring Susan L Shirk on China under Xi Jinping and Ryan Gingeras on the Ottoman Empire.
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Gorbachev’s magnificent failure
The last Soviet leader, who died this week, accelerated the decline of the Soviet Union – but did so by…
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Nato’s “comeback” pivots on America’s troubled politics
Ambitious agreements made at the Madrid summit belie the danger of a second Trump term
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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…
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Lawrence Freedman’s Diary: My ban from entering Russia and memories of Cold War encounters with the KGB
I was last on the Kremlin’s most recent list of people to be sanctioned. This suggested I was something of…
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US gun violence is not just a domestic political issue
The failure to take action is a gift to Chinese and Russian propagandists.
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