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Things I have posted recently
- The Year of Covid: Political religion and the Cultural Wars. Part 2.6. The Utilitarians: the birth of economics as a science. 18/04/2023
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.5. The Utilitarians I: Elie Halévy and the Philosophical Radicals 1750-1867. 12/02/2023
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.4. The EU’s legacy: 1789-1914: Science, Nature, Necessity. 29/03/2022
- The year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.3: The EU’s legacy, 1492-1789: Europe enters into the Devil’s Anus. 03/02/2022
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars: Part 2.2: The EU’s Legacy from the Middle Ages. 30/06/2021
- The Year of Covid 19: Political religion and the culture wars. Part 2. 1. Europe’s legacy: the first fifteen hundred years to AD 410. 26/02/2021
- The year of Covid-19: political religion and the culture wars.Part 1. 16/12/2020
- The UK Internal Market Bill: Supranational v. International law 14/09/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 3 Sino-US relations – a stable instability. 11/07/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 2 China becomes the prime global manufacturing and trading platform. 27/06/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 1. From backwater to world power. 16/05/2020
- China, coronavirus and the politics of paranoia 25/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part V. Modernisation or Vandalism? 09/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part IV. The pre-1945 Roots of British Supranationalism. 10/01/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part III. Efficiency, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Bureaucracy. 02/12/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament: Part IV. New law or constitutional aberration? 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part III. Assessment. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part II. The Arguments for and against. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part I: Definitions and timeline. 06/11/2019
- Apocalypse and Guilt: Why Savonarola and Greta differ. 01/10/2019
Category Archives: Greece
The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars: Part 2.2: The EU’s Legacy from the Middle Ages.
This is the third article in the series on political religions and the culture wars. In the first, I discuss “the Great Re-Set”- The year of Covid-19: political religion and the culture wars.Part 1. The Great Re_set is the semi-official programme for the world … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, culture wars, Europe, Greece, International law, National Socialism, Rome, Supranational law, the EU, The Jews, Uncategorized
Tagged Charlemagne, Christanity, Empire, European Union, Historiography, Investiture contest, Middle Ages, Papacy, The Age of Faith, visions of Europe.
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The Year of Covid 19: Political religion and the culture wars. Part 2. 1. Europe’s legacy: the first fifteen hundred years to AD 410.
The draft Constitution for Europe, and then the Lisbon Treaty finally signed by all EU member states in late 2007, failed to reference Europe’s Christian legacy in its Preamble. The text that made it through to the preamble of the … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Constitutional law, Emperor Constantine, Europe, Greece, Israel, Rome, the EU, The Greeks, The Jews
Tagged Aristotle, Babylon, Christ, Christianity, Constantine, Egypt, Homer, King David, Moses, New Testament, Old Testament, Plato, Pontius Pilate, St Augustine, St Paul, The Church, The Greeks, The Jews, The Melian dialogue, the Messiah, the Romans, Thucydides
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Is it Trump or the EU that is swapping big ideas for bad ideas?
Philip Stevens writes in the FT about“How the world swapped a big idea for a bad idea”. The big idea was “the revolutionary thought that the selfish interests of rich and rising states could be accommodated if everyone played by … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Europe, France and Germany, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain, The United States, Ukraine, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, World politics, business and economics
Tagged Asia, Brexit, democracy, EU, France, Germany, globalisation, Post-modernism and the international order, Robert Cooper, United States, world politics
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Berlin Rules: Why, What, How, and is that so?
The three books under review deal with Europe, but their focus is Germany. Paul Lever, former British ambassador to Germany, is the author of Europe and the Germany Way: Berlin Rules, I.B.Taurus, 2017. Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister, authors Adults … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, World politics, business and economics, World war
Tagged Brexit, Christianity, EU, Euro, Europe, European integration, France, Germany, Greece, Islam in Europe, nationalism, supranationalism, The politics of guilt, UK
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New Challenges for Europe: a recent lecture of mine at INSEAD, Fontainebleau Campus
Here is a quote about Europe from the late Ludwig Erhard, with which I agree. Erhard writes: “Wehe dem, der glaubt, man könne Europa etwa zentralstaatlich zusammenfassen, oder man könne es unter eine mehr oder minder ausgeprägte znetrale Gewalt stellen. … Continue reading
Brexit: A Certain Idea of Europe.
The result of the June 23, 2016 referendum as to whether the United Kingdom(UK) should remain in or leave the EU seems final enough. On a 72% voter turnout, 52% voted for Leave and 48% for Remain. Yet the vote … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union. Final Chapter: Part 2. The true challenge facing the Merkel-Macron tandem.
The UK’s certain idea of Europe. A USE maybe attainable. But the hurdles along the path towards it are innumerable, and as likely as not unknown. Not the least of these is that a USE would be at the very … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Europe, France and Germany, Greece, Oil, the Mid East and Gulf, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, World politics, business and economics
Tagged Asia, EU, Euro, Europe, France, Germany, Globalization, Greece, interdependence, monetary union, Russia, supranationalism, UK, world politics
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Realpolitik and the European Union. Final Chapter: Part I. The true challenge facing the Merkel-Macron tandem.
Realpolitik- politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives-is flourishing in Europe. In fact, it never disappeared, but became absorbed within Europe’s society of states, dispersed and played out across and within the many international … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany, Greece, Italy, Oil, the Mid East and Gulf, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Tagged Asia, EU, Euro, European integration, France, Germany, Globalization, Greece, interdependence, supranationalism, UK, world politics
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Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 10. Europe in the World:Part I. The US and the rise of Asia.
The transformation of the world. In the key years of 1989-1992, it was Europe, not the U.S., which had the distinction of being both source and origin of the process which came to be called “globalization”—understood driven as technologically conditioned … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 9. More Europe, less UK.
More Model Deutschland for Europe. What concerned Kohl most was the crisis in western Europe, related to the Euro-the kernel of his strategic deal with Mitterrand at Maastricht. German policy under Merkel had become a version of the famous quotation … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany, Greece, Italy, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, World politics, business and economics
Tagged EU, Euro, European integration, France, Germany, UK
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