‘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

‘Western optimists like to assume North Korea is on the verge of implosion. But the hermit kingdom is not going to collapse any time soon’