This book provides analysis of the Napoleonic era in Europe and the revealing interaction of continental politics and war shaping our modern world.

The British Government tried to deceive and betray the British people. It was prevented from doing so by the courage and resilience of the Polish Government and the Polish people.

Diplomacy is not the opposite of war, and war is not the failure of diplomacy. Both are policy tools required in various proportions in almost any serious foreign-policy situation.

Written fifty years ago, Vasily Grossman's "Life and Fate" has more to say about human freedom than any other novel of the century.

Certain conditions have underlain the emergence and survival of our oldest democracies: isolation, property, homogeneity, and tradition.

Fred Siegal's Bradley Lecture.

Immanuel Kant and Jürgen Habermas are still important and relevant to political thought in international relations.

My proposal is that, at its most fundamental level, this "European problem" is best understood in moral and cultural terms.