Niall FergusonVerified account

@nfergus

Historian, writer, broadcaster, Harvard professor, Hoover senior fellow. Latest book is Kissinger, vol. I: The Idealist (Penguin, September 2015).

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  1. Now do you see what I mean about needing a European security network to beat the networks of terror?

  2. 99% of people who use the word “network” have no idea what it implies. Isis is the Facebook of Islamic extremism:

  3. The true lesson of Brussels: It takes a network to defeat a network. Argues for greater not less EU integration:

  4. A brilliant piece on Trumpism by Michael Pettis

  5. Credit where it is due: the (great) idea of a Council of Historical Advisers for the next POTUS is Graham Allison's.

  6. Lincoln: "Reason must furnish the materials for our future defense” against demagogues. Must read by

  7. Politics, masculine v. feminine. The difference between making America whole again and punching a hole in it.

  8. And some history, too: exploding the myth about Henry Kissinger's role in the 1968 election.

  9. Politics shifts from the feminine to the masculine - or rather to phony machismo:

  10. I agree with this. Why leave now, when UK has won the arguments over EMU, Schengen and "ever closer union"?

  11. ICYMI: The crucial point, symbolized by the Mosul dam, is that this could all get much, much worse.

  12. "The foes shall become friends, and the friends foes": Obama's revolution in US foreign policy

  13. "A superb history of the modern world ... a tour de force" - William Shawcross on my Kissinger biography:

  14. The Mosul dam symbolises the critical state of an entire region. Could AlphaGo please run for president?

  15. Retweeted

    Just left chilling briefing on Mosul dam in Iraq; failure could leave Mosul City under 15m of water in only hours.

  16. This is very wrong: . Take a look at what Reagan was saying on the campaign trail in 1980. I did. No comparison.

  17. No sooner do I get a working link than spoils everything by opting not to run ...

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