Archie Brown

Putin miscalculated. Let’s not do the same

This is no time for any western politician to be gung-ho

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Archie Brown
Archie Brown is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford and the author of ‘The Rise and Fall of Communism’. His latest book, ‘The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War’ is out in paperback on 24 March.

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