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Engelsberg Ideas

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Home to the finest writing from leading thinkers on history, culture and geopolitics, featuring essays, notebooks, reviews and regular podcasts.

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Ukraine's resistance to Russian maritime coercion offers a template for how states committed to freedom of navigation can deter those who threaten it. Ukraine and the fight for freedom of navigation | Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) and Dalibor Rohac (@DaliborRohac)
Ukraine and the fight for freedom of navigation
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Jun 29, 2020
This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic - read Peter Frankopan's essay here engelsbergideas.com/essays/this-cr… #EI #engelsbergideas #Crisis
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Sep 11, 2020
Ghost-town London had its harbingers in literature and history. How will it emerge from its isolation? @holland_tom gives us insight into lockdown London in this captivating essay, and we are chilled! engelsbergideas.com/essays/pandemi… #EI #engelsbergideas #TomHolland #lockdown #London
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Jan 7, 2023
'Good, strategic and courageous decisions are needed now in the West. We may almost be out of time to make them.' Mick Ryan (@WarintheFuture) on how the West needs to boost its industrial capacity fast:
The West needs to boost its industrial capacity fast
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Jul 16, 2024
From the 1970s onwards, the Soviet Union and Russia were debilitated by old, feeble and inept leaders. America risks following the same path. The gerontology of power | @VladislavZubok1
The gerontology of power
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Jun 25, 2020
Andrew Roberts (@aroberts_andrew) writes the first portrait for Engelsberg Ideas. Brendan Bracken - the mysterious man behind Churchill. Read it here
Brendan Bracken - 'more Churchillian than Churchill'
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Jul 21, 2022
'The Ukrainian strategy of corrosion, newly supported by HIMARS, is how clever twenty-first century military organisations must fight if they seek to win.' Mick Ryan @WarintheFuture on High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems:
HIMARS permit Ukrainians to fight how they know best — a strategy of corrosion
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Sep 29, 2020
Karl Marx was wrong about revolutions - in practice, they beget Caesars and Napoleons, Richard Whatmore writes for Engelsberg Ideas. #EI #engelsbergideas #revolution
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History shows revolutions are a disaster
Karl Marx was wrong about revolutions - in practice, they beget Caesars and Napoleons.
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Jan 29, 2021
Inspired by the deserts of his homeland Australia, Patrick White mastered a unique and unsparing prose which continues to resonate with writers the world over. #EI #EngelsbergIdeas @dolphinsands engelsbergideas.com/notebook/great…
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Nov 30, 2021
Read 'The quest for Vino and Veritas' by @AgnesCPoirier The journey into wine is almost like a pilgrimage, with many new encounters and friends along the way.
The quest for Vino and Veritas
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Nov 22, 2024
Somaliland's race for recognition | @mattkenyon_
Somaliland's race for recognition
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Nov 11, 2020
Engelsberg Ideas is the home to great writing from the world’s leading thinkers on history and culture, featuring essays, historical portraits and regular podcasts. Visit engelsbergideas.com for the latest! #ei #engelsbergideas #accesstoexcellence
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Dec 4, 2020
New History Lessons Podcast Episode with host @MattiasHesserus in conversation with Fredrik Logevall - author of the new, landmark work on the making of JFK. engelsbergideas.com/podcasts/histo… #ei #engelsbergideas #jfk #Kennedy
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Oct 7, 2020
To argue that Thatcher attacked the post-war dream is to caricature, not illuminate, her importance to British history. Read Graham Stewart's new essay on EI. engelsbergideas.com/essays/continu… #Thatcher #britishhisory #history #Engelsbergideas #EI #GrahamStewart @UniOfBuckingham
Continuity Thatcher: rescuing a complex leader from historical cliché
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