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Thomas Meaney

Thomas Meaney is a fellow at the Max Planck Society in Göttingen

May 2022

  • Finland’s foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, signs the country’s petition for Nato membership.

    Finland and Sweden may join Nato – but even they can’t guarantee that will make them safer

    Thomas Meaney
    The Finns have long relied on realpolitik and the Swedes on neutrality. Joining the historic military alliance could change everything, says Thomas Meaney of the Max Planck Society in Göttingen
  • The NATO Star sculpture stands during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, July 12, 2018. Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    How Putin’s invasion returned Nato to the centre stage – podcast

    For the first time in years, its role has become a topic of furious debate. But what do we talk about when we talk about Nato? By Thomas Meaney
  • The Nato star sculpture outside its HQ in Brussels, Belgium.

    The long read
    How Putin’s invasion returned Nato to the centre stage

    The long read: For the first time in years, its role has become a topic of furious debate. But what do we talk about when we talk about Nato?

June 2021

  • Edward Luttwak<br>Chevy Chase, MD, USA--Edward Luttwak poses in front of a collection of rare books in his home office on April 8, 2015. Jocelyn Augustino for the Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The Machiavelli of Maryland – podcast

    This week, from 2015: Military strategist, classical scholar, cattle rancher – and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama. Just who is Edward Luttwak? And why do very powerful people pay vast sums for his advice?

August 2020

  • Kamala Harris giving a speech at the Democratic national convention in 2020.

    Kamala Harris is Obama's natural heir: another moderate child of radical parents

    Thomas Meaney and Samuel Moyn
  • angela merkel and a selection of Bild newspaper front pages

    The Audio Long Read
    Bild, Merkel and the culture wars: the inside story of Germany’s biggest tabloid – podcast

July 2020

  • angela merkel and bild newspaper

    The long read
    Bild, Merkel and the culture wars: the inside story of Germany’s biggest tabloid

    The long read: The newspaper Bild long poured vitriol on the country’s left-wingers and ‘do gooders’. But now it has a new target: the chancellor

February 2020

  • Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Angela Merkel at a board meeting of the CDU in Berlin, November 2019

    Germany's centre could break apart after Angela Merkel

    Thomas Meaney
    The chancellor has honed the CDU’s appeal to a wide range of voters – but suddenly the future of her party is in doubt, says the historian Thomas Meaney

January 2020

  • Speker Pelosi speaks on Impeachment and Iran on Capitol Hill<br>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks on Impeachment and the ongoing situation in Iran during her weekly press conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday, January 9, 2020. Speaker Pelosi said she would send the articles of impeachment to the Senate soon. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI- PHOTOGRAPH BY UPI / Barcroft Media

    So far, all impeachment has done is make Donald Trump more popular

    Thomas Meaney
    Nancy Pelosi knew it would happen, but Democrats forced her hand. They should focus on the election, says politics writer Thomas Meaney

January 2017

  • Neo-Nazis March In Magdeburg<br>MAGDEBURG, GERMANY - JANUARY 12: Neo-Nazis stand behind a banner during the commemoration of the 1945 Allied bombing of Magdeburg on January 12, 2013 in Magdeburg, Germany. The annual march is among the biggest neo-Nazi marches of the year. German authorities have been accused of turning a blind eye to right-wing violence following revelations last year of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) neo-Nazi murder trio, who over the course of some 5 years murdered nine immigrants and one policewoman. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

    The Audio Long Read
    The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast

    The only known survivor of a far-right group accused of a series of racist killings is now on trial. But the case has put the nation itself in the dock

December 2016

  • GERMANY-FARRIGHT-TRIAL-TURKEY<br>Beate Zschaepe, accused of being at the heart of neo-Nazi killer cell NSU, arrives for the continuation of her trial on September 5, 2013 at the regional courthouse in Munich, southern Germany. Beate Zschaepe, alleged member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), is charged with complicity in the murders of eight ethnic Turks, a Greek immigrant and a German policewoman between 2000 and 2007. AFP PHOTO / POOL / MICHAELA REHLE (Photo credit should read MICHAELA REHLE/AFP/Getty Images)

    The long read
    The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets

    The Long Read: The only known survivor of a far-right group accused of a series of racist killings is now on trial. But the case has put the nation itself in the dock

January 2016

  • Edward Luttwak<br>Chevy Chase, MD, USA--Edward Luttwak in his home on April 8, 2015. A collection of the books he has written and translated are in the bookshelves. Jocelyn Augustino for the Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    The Machiavelli of Maryland

    Military strategist, classical scholar, cattle rancher – and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama. Just who is Edward Luttwak? And why do very powerful people pay vast sums for his advice?

December 2015

  • Edward Luttwak

    The long read
    The Machiavelli of Maryland

    The long read: Military strategist, classical scholar, cattle rancher – and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama. Just who is Edward Luttwak? And why do very powerful people pay vast sums for his advice?
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