Oil’s five decades as ruler of the world
The political scientist Randall Hansen argues that the 1973 Opec embargo changed economies for ever and fuelled mass migration.
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On the responsibility of intellectuals
As the conscience of society, writer-thinkers should not be swayed by prevailing political opinion in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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Israel’s past approach to Hamas failed, says ambassador
Tzipi Hotovely says Hamas is barbarous and must be destroyed. But why did Israel allow it to grow stronger?
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Cutting through the fog of war
In an age of fake news, wartime leaders understand that they now have to fight against disinformation and conspiracies too.
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Was Israel wrong to trust Qatar?
Doha hosts Hamas as part of a cynical geopolitical game.
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The deadly logic of existential war
Warnings that the escalating Israel-Hamas conflict could become a genocide should be heeded.
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Will Israel launch a ground invasion?
Urban warfare is hard and it’s unclear what Israeli forces would be able to achieve.
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Kenneth Roth: we should be conservative about accusations of genocide
The former head of Human Rights Watch on Israel and Hamas, the hospital blast and war crimes.
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Anatomy of a disaster
How a rush to report on the hospital blast in Gaza led Joe Biden’s Middle East summit to collapse within…
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Letter from Israel: “Bodies are piling up on three fronts”
I was among the first journalists allowed into Kfar Azza, one of the kibbutz communities that suffered the worst massacres.
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Letter from Gaza: “What we have witnessed has never been seen before”
I have seen children writing their names on the palms of their hands. When they die, they want people to…
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Inside Israel’s intelligence fiasco
Security failures allowed Hamas to launch its catastrophic attack on 7 October. Can the Israeli leadership overcome its fatal complacency?
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The EU is the “illusory giant” of geopolitics
Despite its wealth and ambition, the European Union is limited as an actor in the great conflicts of our time.
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Why we go to war
Two new studies of the evolution of warfare reveal the fragility of peace in a world ruled by irrational actors.
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The lessons of Algiers
Understanding Hamas’s attack as a barbarous act outside of history won’t help Israel in Gaza.
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The Hamas attack was driven by a brutal ideology
The atrocities committed against Israeli civilians have roots in the same fanaticism activists face in Iran.
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Requiem for a world war
Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo shows how four great 20th-century composers captured the horrors of conflict.
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The tragedy of John Mearsheimer
How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.
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Once again, the world turns away from Armenia
I feel history repeating itself as Azerbaijan bombs Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers redux
The 20th century’s most influential history book foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of China. Thirty-five years…
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