A brief history of war

How violence became quintessential to the idea of the Modern State

Why wars happen

Thinking about war with Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War"

Post-war ideals and the political aftermath of World War II

Civilisation in crisis: the history of a concept

A brief history of great revolutions

The complex question of when a revolution ends

Lessons from the French Revolution

From progress to excess: The revolutionary life of Robespierre

The rise and fall of Empires: from the Opium War to the great wars

The First World War: the first total war

Rosa Luxemburg: revolution and the power of democracy

The catastrophe that brought Hitler and Nazi Germany to power

Was Hiroshima a war crime?