This article, based on my Adam Smith Lecture at the 60th NABE Annual Meeting on September 2018, takes a selective global tour of some of…
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It is ironic that we are marking the 40th anniversary of US-China diplomatic relations with a tariff war. Some blame this on the…
Many of the headlines coming out of Detroit this week during the North American International Auto Show will be about electric vehicles —…
The 116th session of the U.S. Congress began last week. Not surprisingly, it attracted a fair bit of media attention, focusing mostly on…
Although political violence has proven to be difficult for governments to manage, predict or control, previous research on the impact of…
Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s…
Few tasks could be more important than keeping nuclear weapons and their essential ingredients out of terrorist hands. The world community…
In this essay, I begin with the US case, then turn to the Arab world, and then look at global
trends. All three books touch on the ways in…
David Armitage's new book Civil Wars invites us on a structured romp through a historian's playground of ideas. In three parts, he takes us…