The Trump Doctrine in the Americas
Where the Monroe Doctrine meets the Roosevelt Corollary
Is Palestine a legal state?
Reflections on the dilemmas of statehood in the 21st Century
Law and the Leviathan: human rights courts and democracy
In recent years, the clash of two titans has come to the fore. On the one hand is the traditional…
No one can stop the tide of boats
The immigration industry vs international law
The crisis of international law: sovereignty and compliance
The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 had attempted to resolve a previous era of religious wars and there began the…
War and diplomacy in the 21st Century
It used to be said that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means. Now we can cut out…
Russia the Barbarian: King of the Flies
Soviet historians often portrayed the days of 1945 as the glorious liberation of Europe from the Nazi threat. That could…
Adolescence and the engineer of human souls
An apocryphal quote from Uncle Joe Stalin was that artists in the Soviet Union should be the ‘engineers of human…
Yalta 2.0: How to deal with Putin
When Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt met at Yalta in 1945, they proceeded to carve up Europe into spheres of influence.…
Starmtrooper visits The Empire
If the New World had a philosopher, it would be Thomas Hobbes. It would involve an account of the power…
Trump and the New World
The implementation of hegemony, since the eclipse of British maritime Empire, has been the prerogative of the US. There have…
The era of GeoEconomics is upon us
The think tank Chatham House describes ‘GeoEconomics’ as ‘the interplay of international economics, geopolitics and strategy’. The central question in…
Woke is trapped in political limbo
La Rochefoucauld was one of the great satirists in literature. His Maximes, written in the 17th Century, secured his place…
Starmer’s Britain is a death cult
It was Nietzsche who described the ‘fin de siècle’ era of the 19th Century as one of ‘nihilism’. With the…
Foreign policy realism
The Liberal International Order (LIO) is no more. The days of intervening in foreign lands to protect ‘democracy’ is almost…
Much ado about nothing: UK Labour’s policy wasteland
Most astute commentators on the ‘zeitgeist’ of the times; in the realms of geopolitics, economics, resource scarcity etc – whether…
The Trump attack and the death of consensus
Assassination attempts are the boiling point at which politics explodes. They are the final straw, the irascible tension when consensus…
