If somebody like me, an absolute down-the-line centrist on this issue–my position on Israel/Palestine is identical to that of the Blair government–has so much difficulty publishing, it’s a sign of how extremely limited and ethically...

Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power.

City on a Hill and Embattled Fortress: An Anatomy of American Nationalism.

[Also, as the Iran crisis developed in the wake of the Iraq war, it took time for the US and the EU to co-ordinate their position – not until this year did they agree to...

This feeling is extremely widespread in Western Europe, … and is one reason why there are at heart considerable doubts about just how these countries are going to be integrated. It’s obviously a very bad...

This picture is a tremendously important part of the self-image of George W. Bush, of Dick Cheney (from Wyoming, another frontier state) and indeed of their administration as a whole, and it has shaped that...

the last of the Eisenhower Republicans.

I am quite convinced that if (U.S. President Dwight) Eisenhower were to come back today he would have written a review in support of my book,

A military threat would have been very credible after Afghanistan. But after Iraq, no one thinks they could invade and occupy Iran.