Departures Podcast featuring Jade McGlynn, author of ‘Memory Makers’

By Editor | Published: September 7, 2023

As Russia’s catastrophic war in Ukraine lurches its way toward another winter, an interesting debate is emerging regarding some of the fundamental ideas of Russian nationalism which has underpinned Vladimir Putin’s casus belli, often including specifically misleading characterizations of history being used as a mobilizing force. In considering the relative complacency if not broad support […]

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Departures Podcast featuring Jacob Mikanowski, author of ‘Goodbye, Eastern Europe’

By Editor | Published: August 23, 2023

Eastern Europe, from the northernmost reaches of of the Baltics and down to the Balkan statelets strung along the Adriadic Sea, is one of the most perplexing, conflicted, and interesting regions of the world which still today remains the subject of myths and misunderstanding. Since the end of the Cold War, one could say that […]

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Departures Podcast featuring Gavin Sullivan, author of ‘The Law of the List’

By Editor | Published: August 4, 2023

In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, a sweeping transition took place across the international counter-terrorism space. Instead of responding to threats with law enforcement, numerous multilateral bodies instead respond with preemptive actions based on uncertain information – lists of names for sanctions are drawn up, very often directly violating basic due process and […]

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Departures Podcast featuring John Rapley and Peter Heather, authors of ‘Why Empires Fall’

By Editor | Published: July 18, 2023

For more than one thousand years, the Roman Empire ruled over a vast territory that was  unprecedented in both scope and scale. When it finally did fall under pressure from barbarian invasions and internal political divisions (among many other factors), many historians argue that the Romans sowed the seeds of their own demise.  Is the […]

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Press Release: Lawyer for George Bachiashvili Denounces Politically Motivated Charges

By Editor | Published: July 6, 2023

The following press release was issued to media today from Amsterdam & Partners LLP: LONDON, JULY 6, 2023 – Following the announcement by the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia of the filing of criminal charges against entrepreneur George Bachiashvili for alleged misappropriation of cryptocurrency and legalization of illegal income, Mr. Bachiashvili’s legal team at Amsterdam & […]

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Departures Podcast featuring Frank Costigliola, author of ‘Kennan: A Life between Worlds’

By Editor | Published: June 30, 2023

George F. Kennan is arguably the most important American diplomat of the modern era, whose “long telegram” and strategy of containment shaped the Cold War and postwar period. And yet, at critical moments later in his career, he was cast aside and shut out by the institutions he once led. In his new book, “Kennan: […]

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