Revolutionized by the growing use of fossil fuels and electricity, and the reduced costs of transportation and communications, international trade and migration has received an unprecedented boost in recent decades. Using a theory of economic and political gravitation, backed up with both...

Darkening the dawn of a new era painstakingly liberated from the trammels of Cold War – played out in proxy wars, totalitarian Communist nation-states espousing central planning struggling against a market oriented democratic bloc – is the shadow of a potentially more wrenching ideological...