Laurence ClaussenNov 21, 20228 minTwelve Years of Change in the Middle EastRecently, 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...
Laurence ClaussenSep 4, 202211 minThe 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...
Laurence ClaussenMay 20, 20224 minWhy Russia's invasion is driving the world apart...and pushing it back in timeLast summer, I wrote about how both the United States and China were pushing for autarky (self-sufficiency), trying to uncouple their...
Laurence ClaussenJan 15, 20224 minWhy crypto currency will succeed...and why it will failYou could make a strong argument that the most important economic or financial development of the last decade is the advent and growth of...