Neoliberalism, which dominated the decade before 9/11, had an exuberantly simple vision. Communism and authoritarianism had failed; therefore markets and free elections were the answer. Free-market democracy, conveniently spread by globalization, would ...
When Napoleon Bonaparte led his army into Egypt in 1798, he had more than military conquest on his mind. Along with 30,000 soldiers, his entourage included what amounted to a mobile university, complete with economists and poets, architects and ...
Napoleon Bonaparte, left, and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, are the archtypes of West and East for the author Anthony Pagden. (The Associated Press; Agence France-Presse) When Napoleon Bonaparte led his army into Egypt in 1798, he had more ...
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