FULL FORUM: The Meddlers, by Jamie Martin
** In August, we published four reviews of Jamie Martin’s The Meddlers, as well as a response by the author. The entire forum is now available as a PDF. […]
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Angus Brown
Angus Brown is a PhD Student in History at the University of Cambridge where he works on the origins of modern constitutionalism in the American and French Revolutions. Previously, Angus completed an MPhil in Political Thought & Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in History & Politics at the University of Oxford. He is the Social Media Editor for the journal Age of Revolutions.AUKUS, the Macron doctrine, and the return of American hegemony – Revue de Presse, 19 March 2023
When the ‘AUKUS’ deal was announced in September 2021, it was met with a mixture of outrage and scepticism in Paris. Although Australia’s decision to renege on its €31 billion […]
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Review: Michael Sonenscher, ‘Capitalism: The Story behind the Word’, (Princeton University Press, 2022) Before what we now call ‘capitalism’, there were commercial societies founded upon the division of labour, […]
MoreThe Gordian Knot of American politics – Revue de Presse 14 Novembre 2022
After months of pessimism, the results of Tuesday’s midterm elections were received by Democrats as an extraordinary moment of hope. The much prophesied ‘red wave’, which had appeared so vast […]
MoreIs the French Revolution over?
This is a book review of Marcel Gauchet’s Robespierre: The Man Who Divides us the Most (Princeton University Press, 2022) The name Robespierre still haunts the memory of the French […]
MoreRealism without Illusions? Book Review of Matthew Specter’s “The Atlantic Realists”
Review: The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Thought Between Germany and the United States, by Matthew Specter (Stanford University Press, 2022) Open any textbook on International Relations today, and […]
MoreThe Sieyèsian Case Against the US Senate
“Two horses put before the same carriage, made to pull in opposing directions…” Over recent months, there have been rumblings of discontent on the American left about the United States […]
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