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The False Promise of Democratic Peace
Clinging to the assumption that only dictatorships start military conflicts, proponents of democratization believed that the global success of their project would usher in a world…
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Was Brexit Inevitable?
On one level, Brexit was simply the unintended outcome of the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on its European Union membership. But in retrospect, there was a…
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Economics and the culture war
Economics’ detachment from culture can be regarded as a serious shortcoming in understanding human behaviour. Robert Skidelsky I have long criticised economics for its lack of…