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The Guarantor Is the Ceasefire: What a Frozen Front Line Actually Buys Ukraine
“Right Now, We Have to Freeze”
On 22 October, Volodymyr Zelensky said the sentence Kyiv had avoided for four years. “Yes, right now, we have...
Seventy Years After Suez: Alliances Without Illusions
Seventy years ago this week, Israeli forces crossed into Sinai. Within days, British and French troops had landed at Port Said. By November 6...
What History’s Cycle of Left and Right Teaches Us Today
In the old town of Gori, Georgia, well-known as the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, stands a modest museum dedicated to his life. It remains...
McNamara’s Lessons for the Drone Age
Before Robert McNamara became US secretary of defense, he belonged to a generation of analysts who attempted to understand warfare through the lens of...
When Orientalism Becomes a Career: From James Mill to Jared Kushner
In Benjamin Disraeli’s 1847 novel Tancred, there is a short line that Edward Said would return to more than a century later: “The East...
North Korea’s Piedmont Strategy: Turning the Ukraine War into Regional Advantage
Reports that North Korea may send as many as 30,000 additional troops to support Russia’s war in Ukraine should be assessed as more than...
What Venice’s Most Storied Hotel Reveals About the New Rules of Luxury Travel
Room 10 at the Danieli has been empty longer than usual. It is the room where, in 1834, George Sand nursed a fever in...
What a 1954 French Debate Can Teach South Korea About Nuclear Survival
North Korea does not necessarily need to start a nuclear war to benefit from its nuclear arsenal. Instead, Pyongyang could use the increasing possibility...
Why US Middle East Policy Keeps Failing, From Iraq to Iran
The Middle East - for many Western observers - is something akin to Long Covid. One day you believe you are through the worst...
The Case for Recognising Bangladesh’s 1971 Genocide at the United Nations
As the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council took place in Geneva, Human Rights Without Frontiers chose to raise an issue...