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  K rishnan Nayar makes three key points in his recently published Liberal Capitalist Democracy: The God that Failed . First, he argues that...

  F or almost two decades, Peter Turchin has been involved, with many colleagues and co-authors, in an epochal project: to figure out, using...

S everal years ago in a conversation about politics and history,  a friend asked me something about the durability of Tito’s regime in Yug...

                 “The tendency to create the world market is directly given in a concept of capital itself. Every limit appears as a barrier...

I n “Orientalism”, Edward Said spoke of an orientalist as an interpreter of local custom and knowledge to the foreign intellectual. A common...

T he statistical work during the first fifteen years of the People's Republic of China can be usefully, if somewhat simplistically, di...