Doug Stokes

Professor Doug Stokes is Professor of International Security and Strategy at Modul University Vienna, and a Senior Fellow at the Danube Institute. His most recent book is Against Decolonisation (2023), and his next book, Realism or Ruin: Escaping Europe’s Post-Historical Fantasy, will be published in 2028. He tweets at @profdws

Europe must decide if it can become a serious actor on the world stage

The International Court of Justice is exploiting misplaced Western guilt

Trump’s tariffs will weaken, not strengthen, American power

Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics

We are entering a new age of great power competition

The Conservatives must focus on our constitutional order

If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus

A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride

Pay disparity does not prove an underlying system of discrimination

An illiberal network of activists and quangos threatens our cherished academic freedom