The Warsaw Pact’s forgotten legacy | Elisabeth Braw

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As #NATO turns 75, an impressive, engaging and eminently accessible biography of the world's longest military alliance which has outlasted its historic rival - the Athenian-dominated Delian League, formed against the Persians 478 BC and dissolved 74 yrs later. History Book Chat

Solid work detailing just how hot the Cold War actually was, by shifting the focus away from Europe's postwar peace to ravaged Asian flashpoints like Korea, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Afghanistan etc.
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Watch | The Hindu’s Deputy National Editor Srinivasan Ramani (Srinivasan Ramani) and The Hindu’s Maharashtra correspondent Shoumojit Banerjee (@ShoumojitB) discuss the electoral battle in the State.
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The secret to Byzantium’s success | Peter Sarris

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'The ‘how’ is the ‘craft’ in statecraft. It is the true source of practical leadership. Yet this dimension is not well understood, infrequently studied and rarely taught.'

How to do statecraft | Philip Zelikow

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#ElectionsWithTheHindu | As Sharad Pawar rattles sabres with Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, for control of Baramati and the NCP, the paterfamilias of the Pawar clan and Maharashtra’s politics faces the toughest contest of his life. Shoumojit Banerjee reports.
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The study of statecraft would profit by spending less time on ‘should’ and more time on ‘how’.

How to do statecraft | Philip Zelikow

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If there's only one book on modern #Russia that one ought to read, it has to be Robert Service's lucid and admirably judicious history. As a single-volume covering a tumultuous century from Tsarism to Putin, it is hard to beat! #HistoryMatters #books

The prestige of Maharashtra’s most influential political clans — the Pawars (Baramati), the Ranes (Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg), the Shindes (Solapur), the Tatkares (Raigad) — hang in the balance in a string of high profile contests. Shoumojit Banerjee reports.
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#ElectionsWithTheHindu | Smaller parties like Vijai Sardesai’s Goa Forward Party and the AAP are backing Congress as part of INDIA bloc; the coastal State goes to polls in the third phase on May 7. Shoumojit Banerjee reports.
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#BookoftheDay #China #History #History BookChat Bit of a mystery how this book came into my possession. I don't remember buying it or it being given to me! Old age, I guess. The Long March by Anthony Lawrence, published in 1986, mine is the 1987 reprint. It is a large 1/6

'I became a good friend of his, our children went to the same school, we covered stories together.' Our interview with British journalist Richard Beeston (1962-2013) on Britain's most famous spy, Stalin's show trials, and other books he enjoyed:
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“Chemists use test tubes and Bunsen burners; what do economists use?”
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Another set of magnificent figurines - Boney and Marshal Murat - from Kharkiv are here, complemented by some solid Napoleonic literature. #BookTwitter #History #eur

The horror of Civil War | Alastair Benn

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#ElectionsWithTheHindu | In this episode of Election 360, Sobhana K Nair and Shoumojit Banerjee take you to the blockbuster battleground of Baramati in Maharashtra, which goes to polls on phase 3 of the #LokSabha polls, on May 7.
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Battle of #Baramati : Pawar Versus Pawar. Shoumojit Banerjee breaks down the very basics of this contest for #Election360 for The Hindu. It is after all a cross between a Jane Austen novel and Mario Puzo's The Godfather. Do watch 😊

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The great 'unread'! #WorldBookDay #BookDay

The making of Xi Jinping, China's absolute monarch | Michael Sheridan

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