Cold War

The Second Cold War

Minhaz Merchant

The US has walked into a trap and brought Russia and China together

‘It is a historian’s task to explain how things fall apart or come together,’ says Neeti Nair

Neeti Nair in her new book examines censorship and the state of free speech in South Asia. The historian in conversation with

Limits of the Free World

S Prasannarajan

Who’s winning the new Cold War?

Mikhail Gorbachev: The 20th Century’s Last Hero

Sudeep Paul

To say he did not understand the Soviet Union is to misjudge the man who saved the world

Putin’s Apologists

S Prasannarajan

The joint custodians of a revisionist morality in which Ukraine's tragedy is an abstraction

Joe Biden’s Containment 2.0 seeks to employ economic tools to undermine the Russian state. The strategy could prove counterproductive and divide the global economy into two competitive blocs. It will also raise international tensions and worsen America’s strategic overstretch