The Return of Violent Identity Politics
LONDON — I first visited Sri Lanka as Britain’s development minister in the 1980s, during the early stages of the vicious war between guerrilla fighters…
Read MoreLONDON — I first visited Sri Lanka as Britain’s development minister in the 1980s, during the early stages of the vicious war between guerrilla fighters…
Read MoreNEW YORK — This month marks the centenary of one of the most important cultural and political episodes in modern Chinese history: the May Fourth Movement.
Read MoreNEW YORK — Over the past two years, American foreign-policy elites have increasingly cast China not only as a competitor to the United States…
Read MoreNEW YORK — It has been nearly 60 years since the philosopher and historian Thomas Kuhn wrote his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Read MoreLONDON — Some crises take us by surprise. They seem to come out of nowhere, suddenly creating upheaval and a desperate scramble to respond.
Read MoreJ’ai trop d’admiration pour l’intelligence et les capacités des Britanniques pour sous-estimer le risque qu’ils font courir à la construction européenne et j’ai trop d’amour…
Read MoreForty years ago, and in a significantly different institutional context, it had appeared practical, functional, even natural, that European Parliament elections should be contested in each country-member of the EU…
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