A century ago, Europe’s diplomats mismanaged the crisis triggered by the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the continent…
China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate. How did the country do it? How…
In recent decades there has been a gradual transformation in environmental policy away from command-and-control policies and toward the use…
The energy sector is increasingly facing water scarcity constraints in many regions around the globe, especially in China, where the…
China has ambitious goals for developing and deploying electric vehicles (EV). The stated intention is to “leapfrog” the auto industries of…
China's rapid rise to become the world's second largest economy has resulted in an unprecedented impact on the global system and an urgent…
China's rapid rise to become the world's second largest economy has resulted in an unprecedented impact on the global system and an urgent…
A century ago this month, Europeans stood on the brink of a war so devastating that it forced historians to create a new category: “World…
The collections and archives of the International Institute of Social History contain evidence of a social and economic world that affected…