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12 Gifts of 2024 on my Substack

Three historic changes in 2024: West Asia, India, & AI

Korea Crisis: Deep causes of the real crisis of Korea and US power

Anxiety about Russia after American Primacy

Unlimited Empire and America’s Unipolar Illusion

Chinese History after the ‘Thucydides Trap’

China never entered the Thucydides Trap that US history invented.

Undeclared Empires (USA & USSR) in the Cold War

India, after the postwar world order

How decolonization shaped the postwar world order

Before the World Changed: Reading Tagore's Prescient 1941 Essay

Europe after the postwar world order

How the partition of Eurasia defined world disorder after 1945

USA dreams in the world, after American Primacy

Will Trump end the American-led post-war world order?

John Darwin After Tamerlane and the Post-1945 World

Imagine a world free of nations

How the post-1945 world order began in disorder

A world of unequal nations after the American Century

Poets and history writers are émigrés

How my thinking on the world crisis has changed

Olga Tokarczuk as a writer on history

How to make sense of a world crisis

How the tides of globalisation turned against the West - Part 3

Olga Tokarczuk, The Tender Narrator

Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Archive

How the tides of globalisation turned against the West - Part Two

Olga Tokarczuk's tender narrator of Nobel histories

How the tides of globalisation turned against the West

How the history of emotions can heal childhood sexual abuse

The 2024 Abuse Scandal that Rewrote Alice Munro's Nobel Legacy

Fantastic journeys through history

Marina Tsvetaeva, The Poet in Time

How Elfriede Jelinek unleashed language to smash society's cliches.

How to face monstrous world events and not turn your heart into stone

Inga Clendinnen, Representing the Holocaust

No end of fun with Wisława Szymborska

The fall of the US dollar and global power?

Reading the Holocaust

Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize for Literature 1995

How to talk intelligently about population “collapse”, fertility and IVF

Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality

Gabriel Garcia Marquez & the history that inspired "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

The Psychology of Conflict: A Must-Read Book Review (Overy, “Why War?”)

Who do you want to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024?

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, 1975 to 1981

120 Nobels Challenge Workshop 1930 to 1969

Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality III

Which Nobel Laureate from 1930 to 1969 would you want to have dinner with?

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, 1968 to 1974

Imagine you are a Foreign Minister: Globalisation

Imagine you are a Foreign Minister: Great Power Narratives

Dive deeper in the Burning Archive

Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality II

What memories does rereading favourite writers prompt for you?

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, Steinbeck & Sartre to Sachs & Asturias (1962-1967)

Imagine you are a Foreign Minister: Power Players

Imagine you are a Foreign Minister: 7 Power Factors

Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality (Part 1)

Diplomats as writers -120 Nobels Archive Reading Thread, 4/8/24

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, Laxness to Andrić (1955-1961)

Imagine you are a Foreign Minister - International Politics

Imagine you are a Foreign Minister - Geography

Winston Churchill, the writer. 120 Nobels Archive Reading Thread, 28/7/24

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, T.S. Eliot to Hemingway (1948-1954)

Imagine you are a Foreign Minister. Myths of Geopolitics

Isaiah Berlin, On Political Judgment

120 Nobels Challenge 1937 to 1947 Chat

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, 1937-1947

NATO at 75: the astonishing true history of secrets, lies and empires

120 Literature Nobels Challenge: first 30 years of famous, favourite & forgotten

120 Nobels Archive Reading Thread 14/7/24

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1929-36)

First workshop of the 120 Nobels Challenge

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Workshop

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1922-28)

American Nihilism & NATO's Defeat

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1915-21)

Niall Ferguson on collapses: Soviet Union and USA

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1907 to 1913)

Why we're not all Soviets now

The West fails to change the tides of history

Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1901-1906)

Imagine a world free of the idea of nation

120 Days of Nobels Literary Pilgrimage

Tagore and the decay of the West

The silence of the bureaucrats

Soviet Collapse and the Unipolar Moment

Why Jordan Peterson is wrong on the "German Problem"

Forgetting Foucault

What and how I write on Substack

Why did the poet shoot Fico?

"The era of US dominance has ended"

Looking into the abyss of war

Anomie Today and Prospects of Cultural Renewal

Chōmei, Hōjōki, or how to respond when the world is collapsing

Myths of the post-1945 world

Babylon Berlin, modernism & history

Myths of the post-1945 world order

Is Ukraine the West's ‘Suez Moment’?

My island diaspora home

How to mend our broken Asian heart

The Great Confinement and How I Am

Peace with Russia

Why did Australia misunderstand the multipolar world?

How did Multicultural Australia Misread the Multipolar World?

Terror in Moscow

When Ancient Civilisations become Modern Great Powers

How India sees the multipolar world clearly

Essays on the history of destruction

Storms of Globalisation

Is Western civilization a myth?

The Global Storms (1900-1945)

Could culture be one road to peace?

33 years as a bureaucrat

Australia in a multipolar world

BOOK REVIEW: Sakwa, The Lost Peace

An invitation to explore world history

Globalisation in the 19th century multipolar world

Serious conversations, or talk shows?

3 Russian history lessons from the Tucker Putin interview

The West has lost the will for peace

Will the West reconcile to peace and defeat?

Welcome to the Burning Archive

The world was always multipolar

The Changing Tides of Globalization

When historians tell big lies

Historians and prophets at Davos

Dictionaries, Histories and Lost Words

Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain

Civilizations in History

New Tides of Globalisation

My Highlights of 2023

My hopes for 2024