While labor productivity growth in five advanced economies has seen a downturn, as creators and workers realize their collective power in the coming months and years, these movements will grow in … Read the rest
Beginning and Endings of Empires
The Logic of Human Nature and Causal Network
The unpredictability of the human species is well known. Idiosyncratic traits of each family swamp the generic predictors, no matter how cleverly they are combined. … Read the rest
The Old Order is Crumbling, and a New Order is Rising
The end of Empires

In all the occupied areas of the Japanese, the three policies agreed on in November 1941 were applied with mixed results. … Read the rest
Axis States Understood they settled the Moral Low Ground
US hesitancy in joining WWII
As we have seen in the previous part between the Pearl Harbor attack and Hitler’s declaration of war on the … Read the rest
The Second World War Created the Conditions for Transforming Europe and the Entire Global Geo-political Order
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the … Read the rest
The Five Days That Made Pearl Harbours As a Key For the Worldwide War
The riddle surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack
The dominant narrative holds that Japan’s surprise attack led inexorably to the outbreak of a truly global conflict. … Read the rest
Creating a New World Order

The geopolitical transformation of Asia and the Pacific
Japan’s leaders understood that war with the United States was far from ideal. Still, it also ended … Read the rest
The Importance of South East and East Asia Today
In the turbulent 2010s, a perspective from East Asian history that might have been useful was about the fragility of democracy. The story of post-war … Read the rest