By Conn Hallinan -10.28.12
Could Japan and China—the number two and three largest economies in the world—really get into a punch-out over five tiny islands covering less than four square miles? According to the International Crisis Group, maybe: “All the trends are in the wrong direction,...
By Michael Faulkner - Letter from the U.K.
In a 2003 review of his autobiography, Interesting Times, in the New York Review of Books, Tony Judt described Eric Hobsbawm, who died on October 1 aged 95, as “the best-known historian in the world”. It was not an exaggeration. If his reputation rested solely on his four-volumes, the Ages of Revolution; Capital; Empire and Extremes, that would be enough to satisfy anyone aspiring to a place in the...
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