Sublime

Henry Kissinger is known for the rather menacing aphorism, “who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control continents; who controls money can control the world.”

These presidents—Adams, Grant, Hoover, and Carter—brought the crisis to a head by intensifying the crisis by taking obsolete measures in an effort to solve the problems they faced. After this presidency,

Would any reasonable nation faced with comparable threats of annihilation have acted differently?

Tyler’s tall, thin body and square-framed glasses were well known across the world. The recently retired US secretary of defense, he had exerted a deep influence on his country’s national strategy.

After the First World War, the newly established Weimar Republic was impoverished by inflation and economic crises and considered itself abused by the punitive provisions included in the postwar Treaty of Versailles. Under Hitler after 1933, Germany sought to impose its totalitarianism on all of Europe. In short, throughout the first half of the tw

Megapolitical transitions are never popular, because they antiquate painstakingly acquired intellectual capital and confound established moral imperatives. They are not undertaken by popular demand, but in response to changes in the external conditions that alter the logic of violence in the local setting. Transitions to new ways of organizing live

there has always been a politician from the declining class who holds the final presidency in a cycle and oversees a failed presidency. This will likely be a Democrat standing for the technocracy—a conventional Democrat in the sense that Jimmy Carter was a conventional Democrat, Herbert Hoover was a conventional Republican, and so on.

such, Abbas was likely to pocket any concessions that Kerry pried from Israel, declare a Palestinian state unilaterally in the UN, and then sue Israel in the International Criminal Court for illegally occupying that state.

But, as stated at the outset, it is the thesis of this book that no nation in the history of the world that has faced comparable threats to its survival—both external and internal—has ever made greater efforts at, and has ever come closer to, achieving the high norms of the rule of law.