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From evil to upheaval and beyond: How the ‘axis’ metaphor shaped modern geopolitics

  • Written by Andrew Latham, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College
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The plural of “axis” is “axes,” apparently. And foreign policy types with axes to grind have been making good use of this other meaning, too.

Earlier this year, academic Walter Russell Mead warned in his Wall Street Journal column of the threat from the “axis of...

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