Václav Havel For Our Time. A discourse on the Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident from author Roger Lipsey. Click to read Roger Lipsey, a Substack publication. Launched 19 days ...

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The country’s fast-paced rearmament is rekindling a century-old debate about how much hard power Berlin should have.

A Foreign Affairs 'Book of the Year' From communism to capitalism to collapse, the highs and lows of doing business in post-Soviet Russia.

Staff in the London office of ICBC, the world’s biggest bank, are being led by paymasters in Beijing, leading to security fears for key infrastructure

An eye-opening account of a world order shaped by spacepower and the threat of space warfare.

University of Cambridge academics say reading at any age improves brain and mental health.

Why has Tunisia, widely considered an Arab Spring ‘success story’, seen such an explosion in violent Islamism among its women?

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From the Gulf War to Gaza, a compelling critique of how and why Washington ensnared itself so destructively in the Middle East.