Eduard Rubin

Article 1. A Street Without a Cop: Why Great Powers Don’t Believe in Tears and Have Carved Up Foreign Borders for Centuries An Inoculation Against Illusions, Not a Reason to Surrender When we read the daily news about behind-closed-doors bargaining over the war, delayed weapons shipments, or bizarre statements emanating from world capitals, any normal person experiences a sense of profound moral shock. It feels as though the world has suddenly gone mad, trampled on every rule of decency, and betrayed the most basic concepts of good and evil. But the truth is, the world hasn't gone mad. It has simply shed the tuxedo it wore for its post-World War II photo ops and reverted to its factory settings. Scholars who have spent decades studying international relations at Harvard, Oxford, or the University of Chicago have answers as to why great powers behave like cynical corporations. The only problem is that these answers are buried beneath jaw-breaking academic jargon: "...