This volume is a curated collection of the diplomatic (and, frequently, plain-speaking) interventions - keynotes, essays, interviews and analyses - made in the course of the last decade by the author. The changing international political environment occasioned by Russia's aggression on Ukraine since 2014 and the global disruptions from Afghanistan to the Middle East have brought about a veritable "Epochenwechsel"; an ending of one era of relative peace. What remains is a need to assess the unc ...