Laurence Claussen
Twelve Years of Change in the Middle East
Recently, I’ve wanted to write a piece about the Middle East. But what to write about? What country should I focus on? And even if I...
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Laurence Claussen
Sep 4, 202211 min read
The past is never dead. It's not even past. Russian Nationalism and Ukraine.
In 2018, Serhii Plokhy, Professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard, published Lost Kingdom, an intellectual and cultural history of...
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Laurence Claussen
May 20, 20224 min read
Why Russia's invasion is driving the world apart...and pushing it back in time
Last summer, I wrote about how both the United States and China were pushing for autarky (self-sufficiency), trying to uncouple their...
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Laurence Claussen
Jan 14, 20224 min read
Why crypto currency will succeed...and why it will fail
You could make a strong argument that the most important economic or financial development of the last decade is the advent and growth of...
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Laurence Claussen
Dec 17, 20215 min read
Ukraine's Crisis: What it teaches and why it matters
Once again, there is crisis in Ukraine. Russia, that perennial malcontent, has been steadily augmenting its military forces near the...
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Laurence Claussen
Nov 28, 20216 min read
Perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame: Looking back at American politics
The rarest commodity in American politics is satisfaction. Peaceful contentment is nowhere to be found, not on the right, the left, or...
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Laurence Claussen
Nov 5, 20214 min read
One by one, the list of failed states is growing
Poised as we are near the start of a new decade, our glance is fixed firmly forward. We throw goals and targets at 2030 like halfhearted...
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Laurence Claussen
Oct 8, 20214 min read
My Visit to the Old Town and the Whiplash of History
Some weeks ago, while visiting a friend in Denmark, I went to a historical village in the Jutland town of Aarhus. Den Gamle By (literally...
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Laurence Claussen
Sep 10, 20214 min read
The New Atlantic Charter: Part Three
In this piece, the last of my three-part series on the 2021 Atlantic Charter, I will discuss the issue of success. Did the original, 1941...
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Laurence Claussen
Aug 6, 20215 min read
The New Atlantic Charter: Part Two
In my first article about the 2021 Atlantic Charter, I wrote about the extent to which it is a symbolic document. In particular, I wanted...
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Laurence Claussen
Jul 16, 20214 min read
The New Atlantic Charter: Part One
The United States, represented by Joe Biden, and the United Kingdom, represented by Boris Johnson, agreed to a renewed Atlantic Charter...
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Laurence Claussen
Jun 12, 20214 min read
Political Narrative and Personal Decency: How to Confront our Confederate Past
Adapted from a paper I wrote during Grad School. In May 2017, the then mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, gave a speech that made him...
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Laurence Claussen
Apr 30, 20215 min read
Why History is Good for the Soul
When I was a sophomore in high school, I exchanged ideas with my history teacher about the ‘personal project,’ a year-long assignment...
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