C ampus leftists in the West and nationalists in the global south never tire of pointing out the evils of imperialism. Yet few include the Soviet Union on their list of villains. This is odd: the ...

Even Boaten, who invested enormous energy in efforts to promote the ‘denuclearisation of Africa’, tied the reduction of military spending to ‘saving resources for [economic] development’. But ‘nuclear ...

A centuries-long tradition of authoritarian rule and disregard for individual rights underpins Vladimir Putin’s imperial ...

A new law aimed at tackling deforestation risks hobbling exports of key commodities to Europe, raising consumer prices and ...

Vague talk about “Western imperialism” or “cultural Coca-Colonialism” may ... been no cases when an internationally recognised country was simply wiped off the map owing to annexation by a powerful ...

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of settler colonialism. Across its nation states, the unacknowledged, undead pasts ...

Tadei, Federico Aslanidis, Nektarios and Martinez, Oscar 2024. Trade costs and the integration of British West Africa in the global economy, c. 1840–1940. The Economic History Review, Examining the ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I analyze energy economics and related public policy issues. Yet, the up-coming UN conference on climate in Glasgow is all fire-and-brimstone.

Back in 2021, Guglielmo Carchedi and I published a paper in Historical Materialism called The Economics of Modern Imperialism. The paper focused exclusively on the economic aspects of imperialism. We ...

Iqbal, Basit Kareem Lukasik, Candace Judge, Rajbir Singh Fancy, Hussein Eisenlohr, Patrick Stokes, Martin Pandolfo, Stefania and Hirschkind, Charles 2021. Book forum on Charles Hirschkind,The Feeling ...

Studies show that South Africa is one of only three countries in ... beliefs helps explain the fabric of its society and also maps how that society changes. And churches exert political influence.