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"L'Occident s'est toujours défini contre la Russie" : la leçon d'histoire de Georgios Varouxakis Auteur de "The West", le professeur à l'université Queen Mary montre comment l'idée d'Occident a émergé au XIXe siècle face à la menace russe. Il relativise aussi la brouille actuelle entre les Etats-...

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« L’offensive trumpiste pose un double défi à l’Europe, sécuritaire et idéologique. Le plus dangereux est le second » CHRONIQUE. L’administration Trump se pose en protectrice de la « civilisation occidentale » et veut démanteler l’Union européenne. Aux démocrates européens de lui contester ce rôle et de livrer ce com...

www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

Why ‘The West’? | Yuri Slezkine The idea of the West survived a once-shared civilization as a code for its fractious heirs. A new book suggests its enduring constants have been a fear of Russia and of internal decay.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Best books of 2025: History Frederick Studemann selects his must-read titles

Grateful to see "The West: The History of an Idea" among "best books of 2025" in this weekend'd Financial Times:
www.ft.com/content/a7c7...

If you can be in Amsterdam on 21-23 November, you may like to join us for the G10 Festival of Ideas in Philosophy and Economis. It will also be livestreamed:

Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
Please find the programme here : www.g10vandeeconomie.nl

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:

www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

‘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:

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

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.