Letter from Havana  

Visiting Havana is like travelling in a time machine to a film-noir inspired past. From the classic American cars to the sunglass-wearing secret police and the city’s crumbling visage, Havana looks and feels stuck in the Cold War. Disembarking from …





Islamic Imperialism: A History  

In the Summer of 1993 Samuel Huntington published his influential essay ‘Clash of Civilizations?’ in the journal Foreign Affairs. A book followed, minus the question mark, in 1996. His central thesis: many contemporary conflicts are expressions of an underlying clash …