1+ week, 5+ day ago   (417+ words) For a declining Russia, its Baltic exclave is a bridge too far. In this real-world version of Risk, the threat is obvious and ominous. The adversary’s large, well-equipped garrison is deep within alliance territory and can cut off easy access…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (908+ words) Engelsberg Ideas The women who waged secret war on the Nazis The valiant contribution made by female secret agents to the resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe has been overlooked for too long. Women of SOE: A History of Their Secret Missions…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (583+ words) In the postwar period, the US-led world order succeeded in taming efforts to redraw international boundaries by force, but eliminating such impulses entirely is not a realistic basis for an effective grand strategy. The desire to revise territorial boundaries through…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (290+ words) The notion of a new world order shaped by the Global South, a reincarnation of the Third World, is a chimera. Middle-power dynamism is the surest way to preserve the Global West in a new form. From the ‘Third World…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (348+ words) Engelsberg Ideas The first Moscow show trial A compelling film by the Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa captures the grotesque spectacle that anticipated Stalin’s purge of his rivals. It is 90 years this month since the Trial of the Sixteen, which commenced…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1116+ words) T.G. Otte is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia, former adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and author of ‘Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey’ (2020). He is also an elected member of the…...