Critics like to think that neoconservative ideas lie buried in the sands of Iraq. But neocons are still in the mainstream of US politics

‘A North Korean attack could be the last nail in the coffin of unchallenged American power in the world’

Brendan Simms's new epic history of Europe is an earnest and old-fashioned of great power rivalries

When the dust settles in Damascus, the country will have been torn apart and, as in Yugoslavia, the process will be irreversible