Results for “Imperial Pacific”

…e. The Japanese and Koreans and Vietnamese all found it was wiser to play by China’s rules than to attack her. Assyrian imperial arrangements overmastered a dozen smaller states from the 9 to 7 centuries BCE. The Dehli Sultinate managed hegemony in South Asia from 12 to 14 centur...

…imitiert. Ln 1823 Josef Lobmeyr senior founds the company in Vienna's Wethburg- gasse and soon becomes purveyor to the Imperial Court. LOBMEYR pro- vides handmade and mouthblown champagne coolers for auction. The shape has been designed by Sebas- tian Menschhorn. Each of them wa...

…cally, however, Ben-Gurion and his European partners had catastrophically miscalculated. Britain and France were fading imperial powers. The balance of power after the Second World War rested with America and the Soviet Union. Both were furious over the obviously pre-arranged sei...

…y should have read. That things were changing because of the wishes of their people, and because of machinations of the imperialists.” —Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, June 2011 “It is hardly likely that the US will admit to manipulating [Hong Kong’s] ‘Occupy Central’ movem...

…be in Chinese support for the left-wing Japanese peace groups that have long investigated and published evidence of the Imperial Army’s war atrocities in the 1930s and 1940s. Such Japanese research has been politically useful for China in buttressing its own efforts to chronicle...

…® “A man returning after years of absence would have known, with his eyes shut, that he was in that ancient capital and imperial city, Vienna.” To really get a feel for that age, watch just a few frames of Russian director Dizga Vertov’s jittery 1929 black and white film Man with...

…rld is a dangerous place. So countries do things to feel safer. Their populations demand it. Germany looks at Britain’s imperial navy in the 1890s: London could snap Berlin’s trade arteries. So the Kaiser orders two battleships. Britain builds three in response. Germany turns to...

…, Michael Walzer declared that the Left was being “stupid, overwrought, grossly inaccurate” and should accept America’s imperial status, modeling any opposition to the Iraq invasion on the Little Englanders during the Boer War. Then, as the insurgency developed, the alliance mel...

…med to be in conformity with the MD of Palestine, which was the legal fig-leaf in concealing the real goals of both the imperial power and Zionist Organizations. During the whole of British rule, Palestinians revolted and demonstrated, but the British forces dealt with these revo...

… presidents and foreign leaders directly. He combines expertise and influence with breadth: He’s worked on questions as imperial as American grand strategy and as delicate and abstract as bioethics. He’s most famous for The End of History and the Last Man, whose perennially misun...

…med to be in conformity with the MD of Palestine, which was the legal fig-leaf in concealing the real goals of both the imperial power and Zionist Organizations. During the whole of British rule, Palestinians revolted and demonstrated, but the British forces dealt with these rev...

…way we bottle up our lives in firms or congresses or universities flavors just about every other decision we make®®. An imperial CEO, prone to visions and control creates a different sort of firm than a boss who moves among his employees nearly as an equal. An army that moves fro...

…start of the century, as it came out of its domestic shell, yet took care to avoid being seen as a resurgent power with imperial interests. After a decade of regional conflict, Turkey is finding that problems with neighbors are not only unavoidable, but may even be necessary as t...

…ling the other shore. Moving troops solely by sea creates transport limitations and logistical problems. It also leaves imperial lines vulnerable to interdiction — sometimes merely from pirates, a problem that plagued Rome's sea transport. A land bridge, or a land bridge with min...

…d to control the eastern Mediterranean. The Levant is the crossroads of continents, and Israel lies in the path of many imperial ambitions. Israel therefore occupies what might be called the convergence zone HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031865