Historian and journalist. Literary Editor @EngelsbergIdeas | Email: [email protected]
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I am delighted to announce that my chapter on espionage in Central Asia and the Great Game has been published as part of this wonderful collection, ‘Spies in History’.
It will be up on @EngelsbergIdeas soon. A big thank you to @_paullay and @forlaget_stolpe for the opportunity.
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If you're looking for a book about a deluded man who refuses to accept responsibility as his world crumbles and retreats into bombastic interior design and landscape gardening there's always this one...: toppingbooks.co.uk/books/edw…
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An enlightening discussion with John Bew on British statecraft, reflecting on the lessons of the early Cold War, the Suez Crisis, and historic rifts in Anglo-American relations:
🎧The EI Podcast: John Bew on British Realpolitik
John Bew joins @jackfdickens to discuss how the British tradition of statecraft grappled with the postwar world. What lessons does it offer today?
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It's interesting that the small community of officials in Britain Burma produced so many distinguished writers: Saki, Orwell, Collis.
Oliver Soden’s elegant biography of H.H. Munro, better known as Saki, reveals a complex man: was his real character the dandy who skewered the English upper classes, or the fervent patriot who died in the trenches?
Saki’s two selves | @WomackPhilip
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Oliver Soden’s elegant biography of H.H. Munro, better known as Saki, reveals a complex man: was his real character the dandy who skewered the English upper classes, or the fervent patriot who died in the trenches?
Saki’s two selves | @WomackPhilip
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🎧The EI Podcast: John Bew on British Realpolitik
John Bew on the ‘hard-headed lessons’ that today’s leaders can learn from studying the past.
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An enlightening discussion with John Bew on British statecraft, reflecting on the lessons of the early Cold War, the Suez Crisis, and historic rifts in Anglo-American relations:
🎧The EI Podcast: John Bew on British Realpolitik
John Bew joins @jackfdickens to discuss how the British tradition of statecraft grappled with the postwar world. What lessons does it offer today?
engelsbergideas.com/podcast/…
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🎧The EI Podcast: John Bew on British Realpolitik
John Bew joins @jackfdickens to discuss how the British tradition of statecraft grappled with the postwar world. What lessons does it offer today?
engelsbergideas.com/podcast/…
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Donald Trump remains in the White House, but the midterms have made him a lame duck.
The dawn of the post-Trump era | Luke A. Nichter
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The United States can neither dominate nor transform its rivals. It needs a strategy of competitive co-existence.
America’s grand strategy for a multipolar world | Thomas Graham
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Simon Armitage’s verse translation of the Mesopotamian epic is the perfect introduction to one of literature’s great works.
Gilgamesh reborn | @_paullay
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Israel’s first election since 7 October has left the Knesset deadlocked, continuing a long tradition of fractured parliaments under the country’s proportional system.
Israel’s house divided | Michael Goldfarb (@MGEmancipation)
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With the defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary and Aleksandar Vucic in Serbia, Putin has lost two of his European Trojan horses.
As his soft power declines, is he reverting to hard power tactics?
My notebook for today's @EngelsbergIdeas
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With Russia’s influence over Serbia and Hungary on the decline, the Kremlin may be turning to more drastic methods to threaten Europe’s eastern flank.
Putin loses his Balkan Trojan horse | Hannah Lucinda Smith (@hannahluci)
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Caitlin C. Gillespie’s new biography of Livia liberates this formidable woman from ancient and modern caricature.
The rehabilitation of Livia, Augustan Rome’s first lady | @DaisyfDunn
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Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ follows the writer through a postwar Germany still haunted by genocide. It is a restrained yet devastating masterpiece.
Thomas Mann’s hideous homecoming | David Thomson
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Dmitry Glukhovsky’s ‘Registration’, released free on Telegram, is a rare Russian novel that confronts the moral rot of the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s war has its novel | @parfitt_tom
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My grandfather was a good-natured man – and a communist agent, watched by the Swedish security service and devoted to a cause far more destructive than I once understood.
My grandfather, the Swedish Stalinist | Martin Jonols
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The nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppe left uneven marks on neighbouring empires. Russia’s autocratic traditions owe more to Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity than to the Mongols.
What did the Mongols do for Eurasia? | Alexander Morrison
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Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises’ is a period piece, but also an indispensable portrait of a chapter in Europe’s history: at once lurid, decadent and tinged with violence.
Hemingway’s lost generation turns 100 | @Katie_Pangonis
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Conversation with @jackfdickens on my book The Scramble for Europe. What European order is and how it's coming under pressure from both inside and the outside, notably Russia, China, and Turkey. Why and how the US turned from stakeholder to challenger. Been a pleasure!
🎧The EI Podcast – Europe: can the centre hold?
@DimitarBechev and @jackfdickens discuss the continent’s volatile future and how it might recover some of its former strength.
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