Introduction : external sources of continuity and change -- Social networks and the power they produce -- The postwar political economy of Japan -- Leading a flock of geese -- Maintaining the relational status quo -- Elite regionalization and the protective buffer -- The costs of continuity --...

"In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos...

In economic and financial networks, the strength (total value of the connections) of a given node has always an important economic meaning, such as the size of supply and demand, import and export, or financial exposure. Constructing null models of networks matching the observed strengths of all...