‘Top-down leadership’ The first reaction in Washington was astonishment that, as one old ‘Japan hand’ put it, the dpj ‘seems to really mean’ its radical agenda. footnote 4 The Hatoyama government ...

T o what extent can the situation of the Latin American republics be likened to that of other semi-colonial nations? footnote 1 Their economic position is undoubtedly semi-colonial; and as native ...

Robert Gordon’s panoramic Rise and Fall of American Growth foregrounds exogenous explanations for the fall-off in us economic dynamism since the seventies. Challenging his account, Michel Aglietta ...

Eagleton’s Overview. Eagleton’s essay is predominantly an assessment of the ‘first group’ of Williams’s work. He omits to mention three of the five latest books altogether. footnote 11 The studies of ...

No European statesman of the last century enjoys so exalted a reputation in his homeland as Charles de Gaulle. Of his contemporaries, Adenauer and Macmillan were, by contrast, middling figures.

in 1954 I was an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps. As a Negro in an integrated unit that was overwhelmingly white, I shall never forget the evening we were lounging in the recreation ...

Problem of Form. The two problems so far considered—the residual presence of historicism, and the neglect of the specific reality and effectivity of literary form—combine to produce a third, at the ...

State bodies responsible for protecting public safety and the environment have been told that their primary focus must be ...

E scalating tensions between Washington and Beijing do not yet constitute a new cold war. But they signal an important shift in us policy. From the 1990s—orchestrating China’s entry into the wto, ...

Fail better. This is Lenin at his Beckettian best, foreshadowing the line from Worstward Ho: ‘Try again.Fail again. Fail better.’ footnote 2 His conclusion—to begin from the beginning—makes it clear ...