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A new world of discovery | Caroline Eden engelsbergideas.com/reviews/a-new-…

The US-Japan alliance – its past, present and unclear future | John Nilsson-Wright engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-us-…

Indebted to Laurence Westwood for taking time off from Dickens' 'Bleak House' and his next novel to deliver some trenchant knocks to the #Starmer govt.'s move ceding #Chagos to #Mauritius. #geopolitics #Britain #maritime #LabourParty Link: shorturl.at/dHysQ

Memoirs of a misspent youth. More than A Fistful of Westerns! Laurence Westwood Charles Drazin

Excellent Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine - a trenchant judo strike of a piece Engelsberg Ideas. #UkraineRussiaWar #droneattack engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ukrai…

‘His book, grounded in stupendous archival research, is a model of how a scholar can transform local legend into serious history without stripping it of drama or depth. Kulkarni exhumes the grisly tale of Narayan Rao’s assassination and the currents that shattered the Maratha

The spheres-of-influence approach to grand strategy largely fell out of public discourse at the end of the Cold War. But now, many analysts argue that under the second Trump administration it is back with a vengeance. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/01/sph…

The World According to Xi, a terrific new report from my Lowy Institute colleague Richard McGregor. The Lowy Institute Richard McGregor interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/world…

#Raghoba : A detailed review by Shoumojit Banerjee ‘…Kulkarni weaves a Rashomon-like tale that is at once granular and panoramic while being morally complexity. He does not flatten Raghoba into a villainous caricature. The latter comes across less a Machiavellian schemer than a man

My review of Dr Uday S Kulkarni's fabulous and definitive account of the 1773 assassination of Peshwa Narayan Rao that set-off a domino effect leading to the First Anglo-Maratha War and Raghoba’s fateful alliance with the British.A forensic masterpiece! shorturl.at/xUbaN

A nice, in depth review of an excellent book... Shoumojit Banerjee Dr Uday S Kulkarni

"The Enlightenment, as I understand it, was revolutionary in multiple ways." fivebooks.com/best-books/enl…

In the febrile political climate of #earlymodern Europe, letters – and the information they contained – were dangerous. Notorious ‘black chambers’ turned postmasters into spies. 🔒 Archive and bundle subscribers can read Rachel Midura’s new feature now buff.ly/ZAF3lSi

When it comes to the end of the #RomanEmpire three things are certain: death, taxes, and Goths. Were reports of its demise exaggerated? ⌛ Last chance to read June’s Head to Head for free buff.ly/KLAsndu

Terrific and trenchant piece by Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 for Engelsberg Ideas engelsbergideas.com/notebook/inter…

How to read your way through Operation Overlord? Shoumojit Banerjee charts out some enduring reads on the anniversary of #DDay81. C. Ryan's 'The Longest Day' and J.C. Masterman’s ‘The Double Cross System’ remain gold standards in their way. #WW2 #ww2history shorturl.at/DauEl

Dien Bien Phu was the death knell of the French colonial empire in Indochina and one of the clearest examples of asymmetric warfare reshaping the global order. In wake of #OperationSpiderweb, the first part of my series on modern asymmetric warfare. 🖇️ shorturl.at/n9xiN

In the months since Assad’s fall, the Islamic State has gradually regained its feet, Charles Lister writes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/05/syr…

New arrival Laurence Westwood. Promises to be every bit as thrilling and original as Weatherford's 'Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World'. #history #China #books

In many ways, the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-89) was a dress rehearsal for today's drone wars. Though drones then were rudimentary, core elements of modern remote warfare - surveillance, precision, asymmetry - were all present. Part 2 of my series. 🔗shorturl.at/C740E