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Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In <i>Territory, Authority, Rights</i>, one of the world … institutions and networks originally developed with nations in mind, such as the rule of law and respect for private authority … her case by examining how three components of any society in any age--territory, authority, and rights--have changed in …
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In <i>Appeasing Bankers</i>, Jonathan Kirshner shows that bankers dread war--an aversion rooted in pragmatism, not … idealism. "Sound money, not war" is hardly a pacifist rallying cry. The financial world values economic stability above all … else, and crises and war threaten that stability. States that pursue appeasement when assertiveness--or even conflict …
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-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and peace have been critical determinants of international trade over the very …
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Scholars and statesmen have debated the influence of international commerce on war and peace for thousands of years …
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-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and peace have been critical determinants of international trade over the very …
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Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history. The book...
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collaborating with a regime that was inexorably moving toward war. Although Britain hoped that the wartime economic alliance with … the United States would continue after World War II, the American business community reconnected with West Germany to …
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--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity--and he uses archaeological, historical, and …
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Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. Daniel Stedman Jones argues that there was...
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collaborating with a regime that was inexorably moving toward war. Although Britain hoped that the wartime economic alliance with … the United States would continue after World War II, the American business community reconnected with West Germany to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097663