Historical fact is more unsettling than fiction. The first in a series, this article is an introduction to Gladio, a clandestine operation that changed Italian - and world - politics.

India was born in exceptional circumstances, and with 2022 marking 75 years of independence it is an apt time to see how its foreign policy has evolved since 1947.

Originally published just weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this article predicted that a lack of engagement with the Russian perspective on NATO expansion would lead to an escalation of tensions.

The ‘state of exception’ is critically important from a human rights perspective because the suspension of the legal order often paves the way for systematic human rights violations.