Power: A Radical View began its surprisingly long life as a very short book (now the first chapter of this one) in 1974 and its third edition, incorporating a series of revisions, elaborations and applications, appeared in 2021—four years ago as I write this preface to its republication. What I aim to do here is to take stock…
In the eyes of Western observers, Putin is often portrayed as a wild, uncontrollable beast — which, in reality, is not entirely accurate. At least one of Putin’s rumored and illegitimate children, Elizabeth Rudnova, lives in Europe — the very Europe that Russian propaganda paints as the “true aggressor,” pushing poor Ukraine into war against…
The war between Russia and Ukraine is not an ordinary conflict between two states. The men (and women) across the trenches speak the same language, share the same traditions, and their faces also look very similar.
Ukrainian identity is being reinvented by war. Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has helped to orchestrate this reinvention through social media campaigns – #standwithukraine – while engaged in a daily struggle against Russian cyber attacks and direct artillery bombardment. At the same time, self-organising groups like the North Atlantic Fellas Organisation seek to…
