The Restart of History and the Russia Question
There should be no misunderstanding that Russia is an adversarial great power.
Sumantra Maitra
Foreign policy analyst and national security fellow. Writes on great power competition and geopolitics for various publications.
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Reappraising Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilisations'
The biggest threat to human civilisation is not from some random weirdos blowing themselves up. The biggest threat is neither solely cultural or economic, but a hybrid of the two.
Merkel's Meaningless Mea Culpa
Angela Merkel is apologizing. Not for her policies, but for a whole lot of other things.
The Paradox of Democracy
The entire idea of democracy is predicated on two essential assumptions, that humans will value knowledge, and humans will decide on the basis of rationality.