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Past and present : to learn from history / edited by Kurt Almqvist & Mattias Hessérus.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Engelsberg Seminar (2019 : Västmanland, Sweden)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy--Congresses.
- History.
- History--Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Stockholm] : Bokförlaget Stolpe : Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit, [2020]
- Summary:
- History, the collective experiences of Mankind, teaches us about the present and the future. How do we look at events of the past? Do they help to solve our present political or economical conditions and conflicts? From perspectives as varied as of the History of Ideas, Evolutionary Psychology and Ideologies - amongst others - the writers in this anthology apply history to today's concerns such as International Relations, Geopolitics, and Economics, and the role of the individual and human nature in history. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Learning from History / Kurt Almqvist
- Tribal Bias from the Wild to the Laboratory / Maurizio Viroli
- European Civilisation and Human Nature / Cory J. Clark
- The Individual in History / Janne Haaland Mallory
- The Ubiquity of History: Past, Present and Politics / Vernon Bogdanor
- Democratic Crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens / Michael Burleigh
- Fantasy in Middle Eastern Nation-making / Erica Benner
- Lawrence of Arabia on War: How the Past Haunts the Present / Nathan Shachar
- Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East / Rob Johnson
- How US Policy Failure Post-9/11 Undermined International Order / Brendan Simms
- Making Sense of the Yemen war: A Present Haunted by the Past / Emma Sky
- Germany in Europe: The Engine that Couldn't / Elisabeth Kendall
- Modern France and the Ghosts of the Past / Josef Joffe
- Authoritarian Populism as an Ideology / Peter Ricketts
- Brexit for Europhiles / Karin Svanborg-Sjovall
- Dealing with the Past - a Russian History / Fraser Nelson
- How the Past Informs and Shapes Contemporary Russian Grand Strategy / Gudrun Persson
- Spies, Election Meddling, and Disinformation: Past and Present / Andrew Monaghan
- Civilisational States and the Remastering of the Past / Calder Walton
- Make Capitalism Great Again / Christopher Coker
- Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Revisited / Iain Martin
- China: Return of Empire / Niall Ferguson
- War and the World in China's Past and Present / Jonathan Fenby
- Money, Might and Mindset: China's Self-centred Global Ambition / Rana Mitter
- How to Think About World Order: Lessons From History / Yu Jie
- World Order: A Crisis for Democracy / John Bew
- The Liberal International Order and its Discontents / Philip Bobbitt.
- Notes:
- The essays are based on the seminar Past and Present held at the Engelsberg Ironworks in Västmanland, Sweden, in 2019.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789189069343
- 918906934X
- OCLC:
- 1256542428
- Publisher Number:
- 99989195619
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