
What’s in a War?
Feb 4, 2021 considers the theoretical and practical implications of analogizing the pandemic to a global military conflict.
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and a senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation. A specialist on German economic history and on globalization, he is a co-author of The Euro and The Battle of Ideas, and the author of The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle, Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm, and Making the European Monetary Union.
Feb 4, 2021 considers the theoretical and practical implications of analogizing the pandemic to a global military conflict.
Jan 4, 2021 cautions against a rush to judgement on whose political system will emerge strongest from the COVID-19 crisis.
Dec 1, 2020 calls for a supranational monetary mechanism to support indebted developing countries during the pandemic.
Nov 2, 2020 thinks Americans have an opportunity to re-establish truth as a political ideal – but not for much longer.
Oct 1, 2020 shows that a convergence between the two systems has been a recurring feature of modernity.
Many would regard the middle of a pandemic-induced economic crisis as the wrong time to sound the alarm about the potential dangers of profligate government spending. But as US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan works its way through Congress, it is not only Republicans who are asking whether providing too much fiscal stimulus could be just as risky as delivering too little.