Word: imperiale
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Though the projections are far gloomier than those issued by the World Health Organization and the Harvard School of Public Health, they cannot be easily dismissed; the researchers, Roy Anderson of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and Robert May of Oxford, are highly respected. There are...
Convulsions have always followed imperial disintegration
These convulsions are the natural consequence of imperial disintegration. Sooner or later, empires have always fallen apart, and the result has always been ugly. Typically, the demise of the Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century triggered the 30 Years' War.
In the wake of World War I, four imperial monarchies -- Germany, Austria- Hungary, Turkey and Russia -- collapsed. Two figures emerged on the world stage almost simultaneously, each a professed egalitarian and internationalist, each claiming to have a vision for the new world order. One was Woodrow Wilson, the other Vladimir...
The plot of the 20th century had taken a perverse twist: the two World Wars had finished off the imperial ventures of the Hohenzollerns, Habsburgs, Ottomans, Romanovs, Nazis and Japanese -- and accelerated the withdrawal of the British, French and Dutch as well. However, those two conflagrations had also created the...