The Iran War: An Explainer
A selection of essays and interviews in Quillette examining how and why Iran and the West are at war, and what is likely to happen next.
Quillette
· 5 min read
geopolitics
A collection of 12 posts
Britain’s Half-Measures on Iran
As Iranian agents surveil London’s Jewish communities and IRGC-backed plots multiply, Britain’s failure to proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps endangers UK citizens.
Aurele Tobelem
· 9 min read
The United Nations Is Going Broke
Too often, the UN’s valuable field work is overshadowed by cynical political posturing. As a result, collecting annual dues from member states has become more difficult.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Power Beyond Realpolitik
In geopolitics, moral culture shapes whether influence is experienced as leadership or domination, cooperation or coercion.
Scott Atran
· 8 min read
Horseshoe Theory Comes to Ukraine
Putin’s Western apologists don’t reflect the usual conflict between Left and Right—but rather comprise an example of both poles making common cause against the center.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 7 min read
The New Eurasian Century
The current crises in eastern Europe reflect more than just Kremlin mischief-making—they reflect the first fruits of an emerging world order that spans the vastness from Beijing to Berlin. Unlike the longstanding liberal status quo, with its roots in classical civilization and the Enlightenment, this emerging alternative draws upon
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
What Putin Really Wants
On Russian President Vladimir Putin’s desk sits a bronze statue of Peter the Great, the tsar who spent his four decades in power waging war on neighbors to establish his country as a great power in Europe. Peter would have understood the nature of the current conflict in Eastern
Christopher Miller
· 8 min read
Revisiting Kirkpatrick
Constructive relationships with dictatorships will be key to protecting US interests without direct military involvements.
Niranjan Shankar
· 16 min read
America the Indispensable
As the US was convulsed by the Floyd protests and violence in 2020, the Chinese foreign minister had the gall to denounce the “systemic and persistent existence” of repression of “people of color.”
Joel Kotkin
· 13 min read
The Rise of the Ungovernables
Why is this happening now? The usual response is to blame it all on the politicians.
Ross Stitt
· 10 min read
The Fragility of the Liberal World Order
For Kagan, the architects of the post-war order sought to wed America’s new-found superpower to the construction of a world order that reflected the domestic values of America itself: a liberal international order.
Doug Stokes
· 9 min read
The Restart of History and the Russia Question
There should be no misunderstanding that Russia is an adversarial great power.
Sumantra Maitra
· 10 min read