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Engelsberg Ideas is home to great writing from leading thinkers on history, culture and geopolitics, featuring essays as well as regular podcasts.
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- 🎧The EI Podcast: The making of Xi Jinping’s worldview Rana Mitter explores Xi Jinping’s personal and ideological mindset in conversation with EI’s @jackfdickens.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/885751...
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- The Suez Crisis marked the moment when British statesmen realised that they could no longer rely on the American alliance to simulate being a great power. Britain’s Suez catastrophe | Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri (@chountisdefabbri.bsky.social) engelsbergideas.com/essays/brita...
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- Nearly 700 years after their political dominance ended, Japan’s warrior elite continue to shape global culture. Why the samurai still matter | Chris Harding (@drchrisharding.bsky.social) engelsbergideas.com/essays/why-t...
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- The contemporary world order is poorly suited to today's dynamic, changing international system, a disparity that lies at the heart of our current sense of crisis. The future of world order | Francis J. Gavin engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-f...
- China's drive to turn the Renminbi into a global currency may run into structural barriers. Dollar v Renminbi | @quantumstrategy.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/dol...
- Germany has long been a laboratory for political experiments, good and ill. Germany, land of experiments | Daniel Johnson engelsbergideas.com/essays/germa...
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- In a post-literate world, reading is treated more like an assumed good than a skill to be actively practised. The perils of hyper-literacy | @alastairbenn.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
- Efforts to craft a new identity for Syria will mean little if its government cannot get a grip on spiralling sectarian violence. Visions of a new Syria | Shiraz Maher engelsbergideas.com/notebook/vis...
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- Treating culture as a battlefield is not the way to revitalise the world of opera. How not to save opera | Alexandra Wilson (@amwilson.bsky.social) engelsbergideas.com/reviews/how-...
- Dan‑el Padilla Peralta, a prominent American classicist, has emerged as the face of radical critique in the academy – but his approach threatens to dismantle the field rather than rejuvenate it. The Revolution within Classics | Jaspreet Singh Boparai engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-r...
- From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, many British writers, artists and thinkers were drawn to the Catholic Church in the 20th century. The allure of Catholic conversion | Guy Stagg engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
- The EI Podcast: Nietzsche’s manifesto for reading Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri (@chountisdefabbri.bsky.social) on reading as an antidote to the restless spirit of the industrial age. audioboom.com/posts/885293...
- Iran’s last Shah presided over rapid economic growth and social transformation. Yet the unresolved political legacy of Pahlavi rule continues to haunt Iran’s opposition. The stakes of a Pahlavi restoration | Roham Alvandi engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
- Xi Jinping’s recent purges of senior PLA officers reveal a military stripped of independence, with obedience engineered by Leninist party structures. China’s century of purges | Clark Aoqi Wu engelsbergideas.com/essays/china...
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- Britain’s interwar rearmament shows that military strength depends as much on industrial and economic strategy as on sheer spending. The fourth arm of defence | @duncanweldon.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-f...
- European leaders must rebalance, rather than replace, the bonds that tie them to the United States. Even in the age of Trump, Washington remains an indispensable partner. Why Europe and America need each other | Lawrence Freedman (@ldfreedman.bsky.social) engelsbergideas.com/notebook/why...
- The Auschwitz survivor insisted we suspend moral judgement on those concentration camp prisoners who, faced with impossible choices, abetted the Nazis’ project of annihilation. Primo Levi’s grey zone | Ian Thomson engelsbergideas.com/notebook/pri...
- For decades, American power was underpinned by ideals that inspired allies and adversaries alike. But the 'City on the Hill' now shines less brightly. After American exceptionalism | Marc Polymeropoulos (@mpolymer1.bsky.social) engelsbergideas.com/notebook/aft...
- Night-thinking reveals what our age of reason and certainty often overlooks: the power of the holistic, the intuitive, and the fragmentary. The power of night-thinking | Mateusz Strozynski engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
- The history of the Western European Union illustrates how even the most useful security arrangements can wither without sustained political commitment. Bevin’s alternative European order | @lordrickettsp.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bev...
- As the Islamic Republic continues to falter, the West should remain open to change from within the regime. The perils of a failed state in Iran | Rob Macaire engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
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- From Pericles to Davos | @armanddangour.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/fro...
- The habits of speech and mind that shaped the history of Scotland’s north country still echo in the present. Scotland’s north country | @alastairbenn.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/sco...
- The price of Europe’s defence | @quantumstrategy.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/wha...
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- Unlocking new hydrogen fuel technologies could unleash a transformation in warfare as profound as any witnessed over the past five centuries, with far-reaching strategic implications for NATO and the war in Ukraine. Hydrogen warfare | Mara Balasa engelsbergideas.com/notebook/hyd...
- In his 1904 novel 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad imagined a world shaped by distant financiers and imperial ambition, anticipating a century of American global power. Conrad’s American century | Morten Høi Jensen engelsbergideas.com/notebook/con...
- The flaws in Mark Carney’s new world order | @george17.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
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- Russia’s imperial overstretch | Daniel Peris engelsbergideas.com/essays/russi...
- With strategic imagination, Denmark could engage the US to forge a mutually beneficial path for Greenland's future. Greenland shows the limits and opportunities of Danish statecraft | Joshua Trevino engelsbergideas.com/notebook/gre...
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- The Kennedy Center without the arts | Elisabeth Braw engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
- The troubled history of the Arab Spring sheds light on the fate of Iran’s uprising. It explains why the Islamic Republic continues to survive waves of mass protest, but may be approaching a tipping point. Is the Islamic Republic on borrowed time? | Shiraz Maher engelsbergideas.com/essays/is-th...
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- The first great radio hoax | Daniel Marc Janes engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
- The capitalists, industrialists and entrepreneurs of early modern Britain combined ambition, ingenuity and moral compromise to transform the economic world. Britain’s ruthless rise | Samuel Rubinstein engelsbergideas.com/reviews/brit...
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- The explorer Knud Rasmussen helped define Denmark’s Arctic ambitions while documenting Inuit culture at the very moment it was being transformed. Knud Rasmussen and the making of modern Greenland | Felice Basbøll engelsbergideas.com/portraits/kn...
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- Genoa 1922: a postwar reset that went wrong | Oliver Yule-Smith engelsbergideas.com/essays/genoa...
- The invention of Singapore | Nic Allen engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-i...
- The woman who made the Tudors | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
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- 🎧The EI Podcast: The Monroe Doctrine explained @jackfdickens.bsky.social is joined by Charlie Laderman to discuss how the United States’ hemispheric ambitions emerged from great-power competition. audioboom.com/posts/883473...
- The two Americas | Damian Valdez engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-t...
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- Thomas Mann’s art of contradiction | Charlotte Stroud engelsbergideas.com/reviews/thom...
- Iran’s protest movement and the shadow of 1979 | Ashkan Hashemipour engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ira...
- Nicolas Sarkozy’s 'Journal d’un prisonnier' joins a centuries-old tradition of political and personal prison writing. How France forged the prison memoir | @murielzagha.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how...
- The audacious raid in Venezuela reveals how technological advances are expanding the United States' geopolitical options. America’s techno-imperial moment | Christian Ruth engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ame...
- Michael Quinlan and Europe’s forgotten nuclear wisdom | Daniel Skeffington engelsbergideas.com/essays/micha...
- The decisive military action in Venezuela leaves much uncertainty over whether Washington’s attempt at regime change can defy recent history. Trump’s bid for hemispheric supremacy | Joseph Ledford engelsbergideas.com/essays/trump...
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- From Kyoto to Constantinople, political structures reveal that legitimacy rarely rests on power alone. It is sustained by the careful interplay of law, tradition, and performance. A global history of power | @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-glo...
- With Iran crippled by renewed popular unrest and economic turmoil, President Trump is presented with an opportunity to dismantle the regime and its nuclear programme for good. The Islamic Republic’s Trump problem | Charlie Laderman engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
- Trump's coup in Caracas exemplifies a form of statecraft rooted in antiquity – and in America's founding. A return to the classical foundations of American statecraft | Joshua Treviño engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ame...
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- Iran is dominated by a mercantile political economy hostile to institutional development and long-term investment. The deep roots of Iran’s economic crisis | Ali Ansari engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-d...
- Each communications revolution rewrites the political order. Democracies will not survive by clinging to broadcast certainties or chasing every viral falsehood. After the Eighth Great Power | Lisa Klaassen engelsbergideas.com/notebook/aft...
