Niall Ferguson
International man of history. Author, @HooverInst senior fellow, @bopinion columnist. Latest book, DOOM: The Politics of Catastrophe (Penguin). Opinions my own.
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I first pointed out that we’re in Cold War II back in 2018. But it only recently struck me that in this new Cold War, we—and not the Chinese—might be the Soviets. 1/13 https://t.co...
Writing in 2003, I was not in principle against a pax americana in succession to the pax britannica of the 19th and early 20th centuries. I took (and still hold) the now heretical...
Two weeks ago, I warned that the geopolitics of Cold War II seemed to be pitting Halford J. Mackinder’s Eurasian “Heartland” against Nicholas J. Spykman’s “Rimland.” I worried that...
How did the steam engine change the world? A lot. How did the internal combustion engine change the world? A lot. So how will battery-powered electric vehicles change the world? Pr...
"When You're in a Cold War, Play for Time." "De-risking" is Washington's new word for detente. It's the right strategy as China's economy slows and its social problems grow. https:...