The tragedy of John Mearsheimer
How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.
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Desperation is turning the centre right against green politics
As populist parties’ influence grows, the consensus around Europe’s climate change agenda is crumbling.
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The new face of the Greek left
Stefanos Kasselakis, a former Goldman Sachs associate, has won Syriza’s leadership race.
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The progressive dilemma
The anxieties and insecurities of the present moment are a formidable challenge for the centre left – in Britain and…
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Giorgia Meloni’s long game
In an attempt to define her legacy, the Italian prime minister has set her sights on reshaping the EU.
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Welcome to Putin and Kim’s parallel reality
The two leaders not only need each other, they also now share a worldview.
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The end of the pariah state
What Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin’s deepening relationship reveals about the emerging international order.
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Germany’s centrist parties are fuelling extremism
Treating populist supporters as deplorables is a gift to the far left and far right.
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What Putin learned from Hitler
The two dictators considered themselves engaged in a life-and-death struggle with Western imperialism – and retaliated with their own plans.
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Radek Sikorski: “The destruction of Nord Stream was a very good thing”
The former Polish foreign minister on democracy in Poland, European security and what he meant by that Nord Stream tweet.
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Putin’s darkest conspiracy theory yet
The Russian president’s latest claims about Zelensky’s Jewish roots are as revealing as they are grotesque.
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The unreality of American realism
The war in Ukraine can’t be compared to Vietnam.
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The AfD’s nuclear option
How the German far right could end up in government.
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Congressman Don Bacon: “Joe Biden does only enough to ensure the Ukrainians can keep a gridlock”
The Republican representative on waning support in the US Congress for aiding Ukraine.
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Europe’s race delusions
Built on imperial amnesia and competing nationalisms, the EU has never been the beacon of inclusion it claims to be.
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History offers Ukraine slender hope for a decisive victory
The wars between Finland and Soviet Russia in the 1940s hold lessons on how peace might be achieved today.
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Death of a warlord
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s assassination won’t help Russia’s flailing war effort in Ukraine.
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Putin has declared war on Russia
The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin proves that it’s not the regime’s enemies that are under attack but its heroes.
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Russian currency crash is a blow to Putin’s credibility
Sanctions have cut off the financing the president needs to increase military spending.
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The self-delusions of Nicolas Sarkozy
The former president still casts himself as the prophet of French conservatism. Historians will remember him as an enabler of…
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