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With an eye for spectacle and a penchant for an actress in a crinoline, Napoleon III has been dismissed as an embarrassing failure.
Jonathan Keates wonders if he was a calculating opportunist or a forgotten visionary.
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My review of Jack Watling's powerful tour d'horizon of geopolitics today in @Lit_Review. Jack feels strongly but writes with cool restraint:
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Patrick Porter: Putting the Grand Back in Strategy - Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided World by Jack Watling
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