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Things I have posted recently
- 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
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part II. The Whig spirit of the Old Constitution. 21/08/2019
Tag Archives: India
The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.4. The EU’s legacy: 1789-1914: Science, Nature, Necessity.
This is the fifth essay in the series on my blog dealing with cultural wars. The first four cover an introduction, which will be rewritten, and will include an account of the crucial and decisive battle during the constitutional convention of … Continue reading
Posted in Atheistic materialism, Catholic Church, Charles Darwin, Christianity, culture wars, De Maistre, Declaration of Rights of Man, Edmund Burke, French Revolution, Millenarianism, Napoleon, Robespierre, Social Darwinism, The Enlightenment, Toleration, Treaty of Westphalia, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, World war
Tagged anti-semitism, Atheistic materialism, Burke, Catholic Church, Charles Darwin, conservatism, Declaration of the Rights of Man, French Revolution, India, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Le Maistre, Millenarianism, Napoleon, Robespierre, Social Darwinism, The Enlightenment, Toleration
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China in the World: Chapter 3 Sino-US relations – a stable instability.
There is a paradox at the heart of Sino-US relations: as Professor Yan Xuetong has written, they are inherently unstable;[1] yet the structure in which their relations is cast is very stable indeed. They are stable in the sense that … Continue reading
Posted in Asia Pacific, Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russia, South East Asia, Taiwan, the EU, The United States
Tagged Asia, China, Globalization, India, interdependence, Japan, power politics, Russia, South East Asia, Taiwan, United States, world politics
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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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America and the world: Part I.
The key words in this cluster of books, focusing on the US, are emerging , retreat, closing and anger. Pankaj Mishra, in Age of Anger: A History of the Present, says that the paranoid hatreds of the present world have … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, China, Europe, France and Germany, India, Italy, Oil, the Mid East and Gulf, Russia, The United States, United Kingdom, World politics, business and economics
Tagged Asia, Brexit, China, democracy, EU, European integration, France, Germany, globalisation, India, interdependence, liberalism, marxist-leninism, nationalism, pos tmodernism, Russia, supranationalism, technology, UK, United States, world politics
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Global energy scenarios to 2035
Global energy is and always has been, highly controversial, particularly since the world’s conversion from locally supplied coal in the 1950s, to dependence on oil from the Gulf. The shift occurred swiftly . Changes in U.S. tax incentives in 1958 … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Oil, the Mid East and Gulf, World politics, business and economics
Tagged 2035., Africa, Brazil, business context, China, Energy, fossil fuels, France, Germany, hydro, India, Japan, Latin America, nuclear, Pakistan, Poland, renewables, Russia, scenarios, South Africa, the EU, the US, world politics
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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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