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| | Why China did not industrialise before Western Europe may be a tantalising and irresistible subject, but frankly it's a parlour game.What remainsunderexplored, however, is the moretractable issue of why Japan managed,butChina failed, to initiate an early transition to modern growth and convergence with the West. A recent paper argues that the gapin state capacity between...
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| | I look at the rise and fall of the British and US empires, measured in terms of their share of world energy consumption.
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| | This is the fourth and last part of our series (I, II, III, IV) examining the historical assumptions of Europa Universalis IV, Paradox Interactive's historical grand strategy computer game set in the early modern period. Last time we looked at how Europa Universalis IV often struggles to reflect the early modern history of places and...
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| Eau Clare, Wi. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - On Friday, June 13th, Israel launched attacks on Iranian nuclear, military, and civilian targets, just days before the scheduled sixth round of Iran-U.S. nuclear negotiations. The resulting twelve-day exchange culminated in U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities at Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow on June 22, followed by a ceasefire declaration from President Donald Trump the next day. The Trump administration claimed that the strikes had obliterated Iran's nuclear infrastructure, setting back its program by years. However, this assertion was made despite skepticism within the intelligence community and without conclusive satellite or