‘No two peoples are more alike than Americans and Chinese… masses and elites are united in the faith that theirs is a uniquely powerful nation that ought to throw its weight around if smaller countries …
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Zbigniew Brzezinski was a lifelong Cold War hawk who was deeply suspicious of the Soviet Union. The invasion of Poland by Russian and German troops in 1939 left a lasting impression on the young immigrant, …
More than 30 years after his death, North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung’s legacy endures. This sets Kim apart from tyrants such as Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Francisco Franco, whose deaths were catalysts for political …
We have left behind the hyperglobalisation of the 1990s, and since 2006 moved into the age of economic warfare, according to Edward Fishman in his book Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare. …
The smartphone is helping to shape the conduct and representation of contemporary war, argues Matthew Ford in his new book, War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at our Fingertips. This shaping …