Just when China bashing has become one of the few policies in which the two candidates for President agree, “Beijing’s Bismarckian Ghosts: How Great Powers Compete Economically”, an academic paper by Marcus Brunnermeir, Rush Doshi and Harold James, has become … Continue reading →

Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was elected the first President of France in 1848. In 1851 he seized power in a self-coup and put an end to the Second Republic to become the Emperor of the French. 1848 was the year of … Continue reading →