We’re not number one anymore. The International Monetary Fund just released this year’s economic production numbers and China has officially overtaken the US as the world’s largest economy: The International Monetary Fund recently released the latest numbers for the world economy. And when you measure national economic output in “real” terms of goods and services, China will […]
Continue reading →A watch group on world peace says there are only eleven countries in the world that aren’t involved in some internal or external armed conflict. In other words, world peace is quite far off. Are we doomed to this cycle until we eventually blow all of humanity back to Barney Rubble? World War I was […]
Continue reading →If you are a student of history, you know that the most stable times in international and domestic politics are those times when an effective hierarchy of rule is stable. Transitional periods are the worst. Even a harsh and cruel government, if it were stable, can produce tolerable results domestically and internationally. Hegemony is national […]
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