Empire

Manifest destiny

What Alaska means to Putin

Russia’s conquest of north-east Asia and much of the coast of the Pacific north-west is the founding myth of his country’s modern greatness

Owen Matthews

How Trump plans to make America greater

Speak to MAGA insiders, and the message is clear: the president is deadly serious about his imperial ambitions

Freddy Gray

Meet Graham Allison, Xi Jinping’s favorite American academic

The Harvard scholar may be a fine self-publicist and neologist; classicist, sinologist and geopoliticist he is not

Charles Parton

Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of colonialism

Weighing the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ effects of British imperialism is a futile exercise, says Sanghera

Matthew Lynn

Place

Following Napoleon in St. Helena

A lifesize statue of the French emperor stands on the balcony. It takes a few days to get used to him

Douglas Murray