Industrialists and consolidation in Central Europe (1867-1914) -- Costly nationalism: industrialists on the eve of 1914 -- Millionaires of Mitteleuropa -- The enemy's money: economic retaliation in the First World War -- Profiting from victory: property transfers in the shadow of the 1918...

I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...

Das 21. Jahrhundert ist durch eine globale geostrategische Konstellation gekennzeichnet, die mit dem Abstieg des US­Hegemons und dem Aufstieg Chinas verbunden ist. Wolfram Elsner untersucht diese Aufstiegs-Abstiegs-Konstellation und ihre Vorgeschichte in Eurasien über 5000 Jahre, seit den...

I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...