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Hal Brands

The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and world order by Hal Brands and Charles Edel

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June–July 2019, no. 412
Rémy Davison reviews 'The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and world order' by Hal Brands and Charles Edel

'History repeats itself,’ Karl Marx wrote presciently in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. ‘The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.’ The central themes of Hal Brands and Charles Edel’s The Lessons of Tragedy are clear. In the developed world, we are complacent about world order, democracy, and civil society ...

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