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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: interdependence
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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China in the World: Chapter 2 China becomes the prime global manufacturing and trading platform.
The forty years from 1980 to 2020 have been witness to one of the fastest power displacements in the history of the world. As the late Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s Senior Minister, noted, “The size of China’s displacement is such … Continue reading
Germany on top, Europe in trouble? Discuss. Part I.
A casual answer to the essay question in the title of this book review may suggest that the two statements are causal, and that the prime cause is that Germany is top dog. Both books under review do not rush … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany
Tagged comparative politics., EU, Euro, European integration, France, Germany, globalisation, Greece, interdependence, supranationalism, UK
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British ideas of Europe: PART 4. The UK’s view of a sustainable regime for Europe.
From the perspective of 2016, British voters in the referendum could be forgiven for thinking that the EU was not very sustainable. The Euro crisis was in its sixth year; Chancellor Merkel’s decision to welcome mass immigration into Germany undermined … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany, United Kingdom
Tagged Brexit, comparative politics., democracy, Euro, European integration, France, Germany, interdependence, supranationalism, the EU, UK
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British ideas of Europe: PART 3. The European Union in Crisis.
In his book, COLLAPSE : Europe after the European Union,(Biteback, 2018) Ian Kearns issues a warning to Euro-optimists to cease dreaming of a brighter future. Get real, learn about your continent’s history, and smell the coffee. The fate of the continent … Continue reading
Posted in disintegration, Europe, France and Germany, United Kingdom
Tagged Euro, European integration, France, Germany, globalisation, immigration, interdependence, Russia, the EU, UK
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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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You’re wrong, Matthew Parris: sovereignty is worth more than a sneer.
In his usually witty manner, Matthew Parris, in The Times of February 24, trashes “Hologram May” for leading “a hopeless mission”. “As obstacles appear on the route to Plateau Sovereignty, perhaps this illusory leader’s role is to make sure it’s … Continue reading
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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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
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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