Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

Elon Musk, who is doing much of the crushing, has said that he thinks about the fate of the Roman empire every day and ...

President of the United States Donald Trump relishes signing Executive Orders (EOs) and does it with an almighty royal flourish, obviously enjoying the exercise of great power. During his first ...

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has made clear he is manifestly determined to make America even more dominant in the Western Hemisphere.

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting ...

But Trump thinks the U.S. should be a great power in the 19th century sense of the term. This means the U.S. should fill that role on an "as needed" basis. He would prefer flexible ad hoc ...

"We are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation; we are daily giving them greater power and supplying ... resemblance to Butler's 19th-century call for pausing ...

“We’re going to rename Mount McKinley [Denali in Alaska] into Mount McKinley because he was a great president ... “We have one very big power over China and that’s tariffs.

It was a time when public power was too weak and limited ... If what Trump idolizes is some part of the 19th century, then to “make America great again” is to make the United States a poorer ...

Now Trump is going in the opposite direction, trying to reclaim more power over the bureaucracy. What can you say about the civil service reform of the late 19th century and are we kind of going ...

Despite a solid enough start, Wales wilted to a 13th consecutive defeat against France in Paris to set up a must-win clash ...