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When push came to shove, Turkey’s young Communist Party didn’t get the unwavering support from Moscow it might have expected.
The Libyan warlord and presidential hopeful looks likely to avoid a summons to The Hague.
Even if the nuclear plan can be massaged in South African President Jacob Zuma’s interests, it won’t be enough to ensure the deal goes through.
Two big battles which turned the tide of World War II can tell us a great deal about some important present-day challenges.
Russia is pursuing influence in Central Asia and competing with the US. Afghanistan offers it a chance to do both.
Two revolutions, 400 years apart, set in chain processes that claimed millions of lives.
South Africa’s perilous decline under Jacob Zuma’s presidency is set out in two non-fiction books that provide unsettling, but essential reading.
Because the Kremlin hopes to project strength and unity, history isn’t used as much to inform as it is to inspire, with events cherry-picked to fit within a fuzzy framework of ‘Russian greatness.’
Former Trump associates face charges including conspiracy to launder money, failure to register as a foreign agent and lying to the FBI. A law professor explains what it means and what happens next.
Stephen Kerensky on why he thinks his grandfather’s legacy has been so maligned.
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It’s been 100 years since revolution swept through Russia and we have dedicated The Anthill 18 to this seminal moment in world history.
Four empires fell, a world was shaken, a new order arose – and the long 20th century really began.
Traditional notions of femininity and masculinity are in conflict, resulting in a surge of violence against Kyrgyz women.
In the 19th century, Russian intellectuals launched a search for historical evidence of their moral and military superiority. What they found drives what today some call “Russian aggression.”
Sergei Rachmaninoff fled the Russian revolution 100 years ago. Spending the remainder of his life in the US, he composed what is perhaps his greatest work in 1940, the Symphonic Dances.
The country’s state-run media outlets have been quick to denounce any election meddling talk as anti-Russian hysteria. So what’s behind the shift in tone?
Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has shown us a great deal in his short time on the political stage. For that, we should be grateful. Here are the lessons taught by Prof. Trump.
It might not happen today or tomorrow, but the risk of a major European conflict is very much there.
Politicians are promising to advance their countries’ international positions through nationalist militarisation and celebration of virile men.
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Relations, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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