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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
Tag Archives: global economy
America and the World: Part II. American century or Asian century?
How fares the American Century is a common question running through our three books. Joseph Nye, in Is The American Century Over? locates its starting date from February 1941, when Henry Luce, editor and owner of Life magazine, wrote an … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, China, Europe, India, Japan, Oil, the Mid East and Gulf, Russia, The United States, World politics, business and economics, World war
Tagged Asia, China, global economy, Globalization, hegemony, Henry Luce, India, interdependence, Japan, melting pot, power shift, Russia, The American Century, The Farewell Address, tribalism, United States, world politics
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Part IV: A Critical Assessment of John Gillingham’s Obituary for Europe.
Gillingham’s case for the prosecution is damning. But what is the case for defence? Definitely, defence in the present climate is no easy task. Assessments of the EU record that business as usual points to a downward track of growth … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, United Kingdom
Tagged Euro, European integration, France, Germany, global economy, Globalization, supranationalism, the EU, UK
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The Euro crisis and German primacy
Abstract: The main lesson from the crisis of the Euro, starting in 2008, is Germany’s assertion of primacy. The intent of the EU integration process was to put an end to what has been termed the “Westphalian” system of self-governing … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany
Tagged business system, EU, Euro, European integration, France, Germany, global economy, globalisation, monetary union, UK
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Eastern Outlook: Can Asia sustain the world? GlobeAsia, Indonesia, February 2012.
My article about 2012 prospects for Asia and the world economy is published here in GlobeAsia, Indonesia. Indonesia_GlobeAsia_Knowledge_Story(Feb)[4] copy
Crucial test lies ahead: clouded prospects in developed markets cast a shadow over outlook for trade and economy in Asia, China Daily, Asia Weekly, January 6-12, 2012
Two key forces that have driven Asia’s transformation for decades can be counted on to continue apace in the coming year. These are economic development and China’s rise. But individual Asian countries will struggle to balance domestic and international imperatives … Continue reading
Posted in Asia
Tagged 2012, ASEAN, Asia, Asia, emerging market, emerging markets, global economy, India
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Europe: Great Absent or Great Power? The European Business Review, November-December 2010, pp.55-58.
A good foreign policy, it has always been recognized, starts at home. Judged by this measure,Europe’s foreign policy must be in deep trouble. Output remains 7% below the pre-crisis trend, public debt levels have reached all-time highs; banks remain fragile; … Continue reading
Posted in Europe
Tagged EU, foreign policy, global economy, integration, world politics
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