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Seldon Crisis
In recent years the identity of the European Union has come to be inextricably linked with the logic of crisis. The EU does not just face crises. It…
Bruno Maçães
Jul 27
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I find it easier to understand Germany’s position on Ukraine than France’s
Germany is of course in the proverbial position of the hunter who, equipped with a knife only, feels little disposed to hunt for bears. Moreover…
Bruno Maçães
Jul 19
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Balabanov, Russia, and the Scapegoat. Bagrov’s journey is the psychoanalytical exercise of the Russian soul
If you want to understand contemporary Russia, forget about anything being written today, which has inevitably been corrupted by censorship and terror…
Bruno Maçães
Jul 18
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A two-level game in Ukraine
Is the war in Ukraine a clash of civilizations, as Samuel Huntington might argue? In fact, Huntington included Russia and Ukraine as founding members of…
Bruno Maçães
Jun 30
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Russia, Destruktion and the World of Pozsar
Sergey Karaganov, a foreign policy strategist close to the Kremlin, has called the Putin doctrine “constructive destruction.” As Karaganov puts it…
Bruno Maçães
Jun 16
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Only crypto is money. The new monetary order
Money today is programmable. Money is not some physical stuff. It consists of accounting entries and these accounting entries can be adjusted or…
Bruno Maçães
Jun 10
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Lineages of the civilization state
Can one organize a state around a civilization? The question would have sounded exceedingly absurd to our ancestors. What else would you organize it…
Bruno Maçães
Jun 5
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Living underground in Kharkiv
On the day I arrived in Kharkiv, Russia shelled parts of the city for the first time in weeks. A young family was walking on the street. The man died…
Bruno Maçães
May 29
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The rules-based disorder
The European Union is so fundamentally modern that its political essence can accurately be described as technological. Indeed, we often call it…
Bruno Maçães
Apr 27
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What have we learned from Ukraine?
What has the world learned from Ukraine? Usually this sort of question is meant to ask what we learned from the events taking place. I do not mean it in…
Bruno Maçães
Apr 8
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What comes next in the Ukraine war? The odd truth is that the indefinite continuation of the current situation seems a lot easier to…
Captured by the disturbing trend of daily events, we find it difficult to look beyond the horizon and imagine how the war in Ukraine might end. The…
Bruno Maçães
Mar 26
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What comes next in the Ukraine war? The odd truth is that the indefinite continuation of the current situation seems a lot easier to conceive than anything resembling an ending.
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China after Ukraine
China can benefit from the Ukraine war in different ways but they all require careful positioning. First if Russia is able to extract painful…
Bruno Maçães
Mar 23
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