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The UK’s electoral system has been considered for decades a model for political stability. Known as “first past the post”, voters choose a single candidate to represent their constituency in parliament, creating a system in which only two…

The Netherlands recently voted in a parliamentary election that — by the narrowest of margins — appears to have checked the recent surge of far-right politics, yet without delivering a comfortable victory to the centrist forces. The…

WWII is, among many other things, the myth of origin of the European Union. The problem with such myths of origin is that the very things at the origin often get elided and forgotten and stereotyped; they become something they never really…

This year’s annual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit (August 31 - September 1), which was immediately followed by a large-scale military parade (September 3) in Beijing marking the defeat of Imperial Japan in World War II, was…

What are Benjamin Netanyahu’s war aims? Look at the current map of Israel-Palestine – imagine an Israel without either Gaza or the West Bank. Clausewitz said there was a ‘trinity’ of war – policy, chance and people. This is exactly…