Unpublished Newswire

What if, in the ruins of the liberal international order, the world is spiralling back not to the fascist 1930s, not to the gunboat imperialism of the late nineteenth century, but all the way back to the rule of warrior princes, and their predatory cliques, in early modern Europe? That’s where two American political scientists, Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman, believe we are headed: a world ruled by authoritarians who extract resources from their subjects and from their neighbours, with violence or threats of coercion, to enrich their families and their courtiers. They think we’re...