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Jonathan P. Allen

The Big Money and Digital Masterminds

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Tom Phillips

Defeating the Digital Oligopoly
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Rana Mitter

The Gathering Storm - Part I
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Thomas Pogge

Betraying the Global Poor
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Catalonia vs Spain: The Philosophy Behind the News
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Paula Erizanu, Stephen Walt

How To Understand a World Run By Bad Boys
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Joseph Nye

The battle for global domination
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Chris Ogden

Hidden global power grab

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Kerry Brown

The mysterious superpower
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Nigel Inkster

Huawei and the Great Decoupling
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Daniel Markey

Tipping the geopolitical balance - The China-Iran deal
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Chris Ogden

The last days of America
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Marcus Papadopoulos

Trump vs Biden: It doesn't matter
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Ellen Brown

Why they killed Gaddafi
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Bohdan Ben

Why Ukraine is Europe's most dangerous border
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Sourabh Gupta

Cold War II
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Peter Dietsch

States vs corporations

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Christian Emery

The Iran trap
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Hew Strachan

The real reason for leaving Afghanistan
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Philip Collins

Afghanistan and the forever war myth
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Philipp Bleek

9/11, Al Qaeda and the nuclear terror threat

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Michael Pembroke

9/11 and the decline of America
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Martin Moore

We can’t tame big tech
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Finn Lau

China’s secret weapon
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Hew Strachan

The real trouble with Ukraine
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War rarely goes to plan
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Stathis N. Kalyvas

How we got Putin so wrong
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Herbert Lin

The truth about nuclear deterrence

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Alexander Korolev

The US can't break the Russia-China alliance
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Aaron Friedberg

How the West got Russia and China Wrong
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Chris Ogden

India is creating a new world order