Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein has dominated my professional and personal life. From the beginning of my Army career, when his invasion of Kuwait occasioned my first combat tour in Operation Desert Storm, to the middle, when I served as a tank battalion task force operations officer in Al Anbar as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom,... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Philip Cunliffe identifies the source of the increasing fragmentation of British politics and society in the imperial structures of the state, and its long experience of relying on devolved governm…| The Northern Star
Lee Jones recently spoke to a conference of logistics professionals about the rapid changes in global politics. He argued that the current chaos is the result of the continuing decay of the old neo…| The Northern Star
Philip Cunliffe explains why nation-building is the solution to the impasse in Western politics identified by Perry Anderson as the Regime. In a recent essay for the London Review of Books, Perry A…| The Northern Star
Donald Trump’s second term in office is causing great concern about the future of the Liberal International Order (ILO) in Western capitals and headquarters of international organizations (IOs). Over the course of the last months, Trump fundamentally attacked international institutions such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Paris Agreement, and the World Trade […]| The Duck of Minerva
Philip Cunliffe asks whether Trump 2.0 marks not only the decisive end of the post-Cold War era, but also the end of an ideological framework that has dominated global politics since the 1940s. As European leaders were arriving for the Munich Security Conference 2025, Donald Trump was on the phone to Vladimir Putin talking peace […]| The Northern Star
Peter Ramsay on JD Vance’s era-ending Munich speech. I knew I was far from alone as I gasped with astonishment listening to JD Vance speak at the Munich Security Conference last week. It may be a low bar, but this was the most powerful and enjoyable political speech I can recall. There was no soaring […]| The Northern Star
Alex Gourevitch assesses Donald Trump’s rapid and disruptive intervention into global politics, and exposes the evasion of domestic renewal that lurks in Trump’s apparent territorial ambitions. Is …| The Northern Star
The end of Pax Americana does not imply chaos or a power vacuum in the Middle East, nor will it erase long-standing regional rivalries. Instead, the emergence of a multipolar West Asia signals a return to the region’s natural equilibrium—one in which historically entrenched regional powers.| The Institute for Peace and Diplomacy - l’Institut pour la paix et la diplo...
Reinforcing encirclement of China and declaration of “Japan as a military imperialist country”.| United World International
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As the war in Eastern Europe escalates with Ukraine’s raid on Russia, Tara McCormack asks why Keir Starmer has pledged to put Ukraine at the heart of everything his government does. Britain’s new L…| The Northern Star
With a General Election looming, Peter Ramsay spoke last week at the London School of Economics about why the survival of the British nation is in doubt and why the politics of culture war are an e…| The Northern Star
