Frank Lee reviews Russia against the rest: the post-cold war crisis of world order by Richard Sakwa Cambridge University...
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ne of the more significant features of the recent French Presidential election was the widespread predictability of the outcome....
In his masterpiece, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon identified the irreversible...
by Frank In the face of deteriorating global economic conditions the financial and economic powers-that-be seem fixated on policies...
Viewed retrospectively, the significance of the Reagan-Thatcher counter-revolutionary offensive of the 1980s has been seen primarily as a political...
The Battle of Copenhagen (1801) occurred during the War of the Second Coalition when a British naval fleet commanded...
by Frank The Federal Reserve Board’s decision to implement a rise in interest rates this month is widely expected....
by Frank After all the initial eu(ro)phoria and hopes placed upon the original concept of a non-aligned, social-democratic Euro-bloc,...
Since the coup in February 2014 there has been the emergence from the shadows of ultra-nationalist (fascist) parties and...
by Frank Contemporary politics consists of the usual timeless formula of Machiavelli – rule by force and fraud –...
by Frank There is a human tendency to cling on to cherished beliefs even in the face of overwhelming...