Jeffrey Simpson
For more than 40 years, Jeffrey Simpson (Ottawa, Canada) wrote for The Globe and Mail, 32 of which were as national affairs columnist. He wrote seven books, one of which won the Governor-General’s award, another the $50,000 Donner Prize for the best book on public policy. He won the National Newspaper award twice, and the…
Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani (Singapore) is a Distinguished Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute. A veteran diplomat, student of philosophy and celebrated author, his career has taken him from Singapore’s Chargé d’Affaires to wartime Cambodia (1973 – 1974) and President of the UN Security Council (Jan 2001, May 2002) to the Founding Dean…
Margaret MacMillan
Margaret MacMillan (Toronto and Oxford) is professor of History at the University of Toronto and an emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University. She was Provost of Trinity College, Toronto from 2002 – 2007 and Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford from 2007 – 2017. She is currently a trustee of the Central European…
Sir Lawrence Freedman
Sir Lawrence Freedman (London, England) was Professor of War Studies at King’s College London between 1982 and 2014 and Vice-Principal of the College from 2003 to 2013. He now holds the position of ‘Emeritus Professor’ in the Department of War Studies. Before joining King’s, Sir Lawrence held research positions at Nuffield College Oxford, IISS and…
Cameron Abadi
Cameron Abadi (Berlin, Germany) is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy. He previously worked at the New Republic and Foreign Affairs and as a correspondent in Germany and Iran. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, the New Yorker, the New Republic, and Der Spiegel.
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
This book, full of sparkling insight and subtle analysis, explains why liberal democracy failed to become a universal ideology despite its victory over communism. The authors show how Western triumphalism of the 1990s failed to take into account the distinctive history and culture of states that were seeking to imitate and embed democracy. Although the…
Roller-Coaster: Europe 1950 – 2017
In this second volume of his masterly history of 20th century Europe, the distinguished historian Ian Kershaw looks at the continent from 1950 to the present. As Europe struggles to recover from the ravages of the Second World War, it is also divided by the deepening Cold War between the United States and the Soviet…