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The end of the Anglo American 'special relationship'
Donald Trump has signalled a great strategic alignment away from the principles of Pax Americana, the post war unofficial imperium that America has o…
1 year, 2 months ago
The decline of the Ottoman Empire Part 1
Between 1876 and 1920 the Ottoman Empire experienced its final crises, and despite delivering several shock defeats to allied powers during the First…
1 year, 2 months ago
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 15
This episode is part of our study series AQA - Revolution and Dictatorship - Russia 1917-53. In this episode we look at Stalin's Terror.
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1 year, 2 months ago
The Atlantic alliance from Roosevelt to Trump
America is withdrawing strategically and diplomatically from Europe and leaving Ukraine to its fate. The history of Atlanticism from 1941 to the pres…
1 year, 2 months ago
Anarchism: A beginners guide Part Four
This episode is the forth in our isms and ologies series on Anarchism and gives an explanation of anarchist thought on managerialism and state bureau…
1 year, 2 months ago
The rise and fall of American soft power
What is soft power? It was a term conceptualised by Joseph Nye at the end of the Cold War to encapsulate America's moral and cultural appeal to the w…
1 year, 2 months ago
Globalisation since the 1990s
What is globalisation? In its current incarnation, it is the now collapsing system of quasi free markets established by the US and its allies after t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Trump's Strategic Problems (January '25)
It's been less than two weeks since Donald Trump returned to the White House. What can we make of the flurry of edicts and presidential decrees signe…
1 year, 3 months ago
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 14
This episode is part of our study series AQA - Revolution and Dictatorship - Russia 1917-53. In this episode we look at the first part of Stalin's fo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Franco's March on Madrid
In 1936 after the election of a Popular Front Government and a social revolution that spread across Spain, the general's counter revolution began wit…
1 year, 3 months ago