Georgios Varouxakis

The concept of ‘the West’ seems to mean anything you like A hundred years ago, T.S. Eliot wrote to Geoffrey Faber, for whose publishing company he had just started work, complaining: ‘The Defence of the West… is a subject about which everyone thinks he has s...

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What is ‘The West’? | Newstalk Following last night’s shooting down of Russian drones in Polish Airspace, Poland has asked NAT...

Good to begin with Poland (though sad it is due to drone attacks): The Moncrieff Show, Newstalk, Ireland, today:

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‘Europe is the core – America joined as an offshoot’: the historian challenging what ‘the west’ means Was the ‘western alliance’ dreamt up to further American and British interests? Georgios Varouxakis argues that the idea is older, quintessentially European, and even anti-imperialist

Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann:

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Really, really enjoying Georgios Varouxakis' forthcoming book 'The West: The History of an Idea' (out @princetonupress.bsky.social July US, September UK). Thoughtful, through book, and also written in wonderfully crisp and clear sentences, too.