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John Heathershaw

  • Professor of International Relations, University of Exeter
  • Contributor, Freelance
England, Exeter
As seen in: Financial Times, MSN UK, Yahoo Finance Canada, Educational Studies, SAGE Publishing, Substack, Taylor & Francis Online, The Conversation, Phys.org, The Epoch Times and
Professor @exeterpolitics. Author of "Security After Christendom" (2024) and "Indulging Kleptocracy" (2025). Academic freedom by/for/of academics.
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Hubris Masquerading As Realism

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By John Heathershaw
| Substack
In 1899, the English writer Rudyard Kipling wrote his poem “White Man’s Burden” to urge the United States to create a colony of the Philippines after US victory in the Spanish–American War. Take up the White Man’s burden—Send forth the best ye breed—Go bind your sons to exile—To serve your captives’ need. Kipling believed that European and American Christian powers had a duty—portrayed as a moral burden—to civilize, govern, and uplift non-white peoples.
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Towards Better Theories of Postcommunist Oligarchy

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By John Heathershaw
| Taylor & Francis Online
The concept of oligarchy has a strange status in the study of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. On the one hand, the oligarch—most especially the infamous ‘Russian oligarch’—is emblematic of the chaotic years following the end of the Soviet Union and is portrayed as an éminence grise in almost all Western journalistic accounts, including some very good books that have been much cited in the academy.
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Making a Wasteland and Calling It Peace

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By John Heathershaw
| Substack
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