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‘Just Watch Me’: How Pierre Trudeau Established Canada’s Modern Regime

Pierre Trudeau’s legacy is as the Prime Minister who made Canada a liberal and multicultural success story. However, Trudeau’s own writings reveal deep contradictions between liberal theory and the realities of sovereignty and power.

Ash Milton Posted on October 25, 2018May 13, 2020

How Land Shaped Political Order in the West

Patterns of land usage have a profound effect on history and the structure of society. Understanding this fills an important hole in Western political discourse.

Avetis Muradyan Posted on October 22, 2018May 13, 2020

China’s Belt and Road Plan to Reshape the International Order

The Belt and Road Initiative has made waves as China’s largest regional development push to date. It also has the potential to start reshaping international norms. But understanding the project’s structural logic requires looking through Chinese political lenses.

Ash Milton Posted on October 18, 2018May 13, 2020

The Rise and Fall of Liberal Democratic Peace Theory

In defending its legitimacy, a major claim of the liberal international order is that liberal democracies virtually never go to war against each other. In reality, the mechanisms of this peace have little to do with anything inherent in liberalism.

Jonah Bennett Posted on October 15, 2018May 13, 2020

The Lesson That America Did Not Learn From Vietnam

Narratives about the Vietnam War view it as as either unwinnable, or undermined by American domestic opposition. In fact, there was nothing to be won. America had already sacrificed its only potential allies as incompatible with international liberalism.

Costin Alamariu Posted on October 12, 2018July 14, 2021

Jair Bolsonaro And The Populist Crisis In Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro is known as Brazil’s controversial right-populist. But he also reveals deep class divisions in the country’s politics and how it remembers military rule.

Costin Alamariu Posted on October 9, 2018July 14, 2021

Why Charter Cities Won’t Lead to Decentralized Government

Advocates of decentralized government view charter cities as a way to route around slow, legacy governments, and usher in political and market liberalism. Reality tells a different story.

Ash Milton Posted on October 8, 2018May 13, 2020

China Succeeds Where the Soviet Union Failed

The rhetoric of a new Cold War with China is popular across the political spectrum. But China is not the USSR and these differences make for a very different geopolitical game.

Yago Campos Posted on October 4, 2018May 13, 2020

The Visegrad Challenge to Brussels and Washington

Eastern Europe has clashed with Brussels about the continent’s ideological foundations. Now it is building the political and economic momentum to shape its future.

Ash Milton Posted on September 29, 2018May 13, 2020

Towards the Post-Liberal Synthesis

The liberal order is being challenged both within and abroad. Palladium is exploring the world which comes after it.

Jonah Bennett Posted on September 29, 2018May 13, 2020

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