http://www.niallferguson.com/publications Niall Ferguson Synopsis: Civilization "If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe - Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland - would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly s...
Today a full day of deliberations, free trade and protectionism, countries decide who they will trade with and who they won't. There has been a generational shift from national interests to national economic interests. This may sound American centric, but this has been an historically American tradition. Liberalism does have a record of success.
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