Chris Read C.J.Read@warwick.ac.uk C.J.Read@warwick.ac.uk Chris Read is Professor in Twentieth-Century European History at the University of Warwick. Most Recent Putin Meets Assad in Moscow – and Runs Rings Around his Western Critics Chris Read Latest Articles 1 Will’s Core Canon: The Beautiful, Experimental and Visceral Nature of Ralph Bakshi’s ‘American Pop’ by Will Mann 2 Iran’s Regime May Survive the War and Still Lose the Country by Nasser Karami 3 American Taxpayers Are Getting Shortchanged. Here’s How to Fix It. by Richard Caroll 4 After Years of De-Risking Talk, Europe Faces a China Test by Martin Banks 5 Putin Is Failing in Ukraine. NATO Could Be His Escape Hatch. by Julian McBride