Which Past Is Prologue?

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Foreign Affairs’ summer reading kicks off with an essay by Margaret MacMillan on how to heed the warnings of history.

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Welcome to Foreign Affairs Summer Reads. For the next nine weeks, we’re sharing some of our favorite essays from the archives that both illuminate the past and help us understand the world today. First up is Margaret MacMillan on the years leading to World Wars I and II. In many ways, global instability today parallels that of the 1910s and the 1930s, MacMillan writes. But wise leaders can turn the present discord into opportunity, if they heed the right warnings from history.