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Brendan Simms
FollowBrendan Simms is Director of the Centre for Geopolitics and Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books, including Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire (2007), Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present (2013), Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation (2016), and, most recently, The Return of the Great Powers (Basic Books, 2026).
Brendan Simms is Director of the Centre for Geopolitics and Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books, including Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire (2007), Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present (2013), Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation (2016), and, most recently, The Return of the Great Powers (Basic Books, 2026).
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Owning the World
Aid is not the Answer
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The Gathering Storm - Part I
Betraying the Global Poor
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When the Winner Takes All
The Unfounded Fear of Monopolies
The Networks of Control
The Big Money and Digital Masterminds
Virtual Monopolies and The Workers' Voice
Catalonia vs Spain: The Philosophy Behind the News
Can limitarianism save the world?
The Death of the 9-5
Why you should hate your job
The Universal Basic Income: For the Sceptics
Post-Work Won’t Work
How To Understand a World Run By Bad Boys
We need economic democracy, not a dictatorship
The battle for global domination
Hidden global power grab
The mysterious superpower
Spending won't save us
The silver linings of economic collapse
Huawei and the Great Decoupling
Tipping the geopolitical balance - The China-Iran deal
Phantom patterns
The last days of America