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
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