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Exaggerated anxiety followed by gradual accommodation is one of the most consistent features of Western immigration history – with first Catholics, then Jews and now Muslims feared. In thinking about…

Rezension zu / Review of: Harrison, Mark: : Secret Leviathan. Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism

Ivan Rodionov's Chronology of Soviet Aviation

Soviet Defence Industry

At the beginning of June, counterintelligence agents arrested a man while he was filming a drone prototype in a factory near Toulouse. Other investigations are targeting individuals suspected of prepa...

The UK government is currently calling for steps that fall short of a teen social media ban. Here's why it shouldn't take the next step.

An irreverent and invaluable guide to our new era of economic competition, written by Financial Times columnist and podcaster Soumaya Keynes and Ch...

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Why export restrictions have always been the best, and the worst, weapons to bring to global trade battles

Why export restrictions have always been the best, and the worst, weapons to bring to global trade battles

As stocks dwindle, further price rises are inevitable

While most literature on female victims of political terror in the USSR focuses on the late 1930s, this article argues that wartime repression against women may have been comparable in scale to the...

What four centuries of conflict can tell us about today

What four centuries of conflict can tell us about today

What four centuries of conflict can tell us about today

Russia’s Way of Building Mega Projects - Volume 99 Issue 4

Economic warfare was widely used in WWII. When one country blockaded another’s supply of essential goods or bombed the industries producing them, why did the adversary’s economy fail to collapse? This column, part of the Vox debate on the economics of WWII, reviews Mançur Olson’s insights, which arose from the elementary economic concept of substitution. He concluded that there are no essential goods; there are only essential uses, which can generally be supplied in many ways.

Cambridge Core - Economic History - Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688

How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history? A new book Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688 edited by leading economic historians Stephen Broadberry (University of…

Что спрашивать в книжных Левиафаны и кадавры советской секретности, богатое (в хорошем смысле слова) археологическое воображение Олега Ивика, повседневность уральцев во времена Гражданской войны, п...