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...Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian, Allen Lane £25, 352 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The only way that China’s rulers could find to manage the world’s most populous autocracy, Huang argues, is through a near-constant curbing of diversity: “Its absolute insistence on convergence, conformity...
...Given exclusive jurisdiction over English trade in Asia in 1600, by 1760 it was the de facto ruler of Bengal and grasped at much more....
...Coercion by rulers and armies was often more significant than personal conversion, and the new religion’s triumph was by no means inevitable....
...Traumatic memories of the French Revolution initially caused panic among European rulers and drove them into hasty concessions or precipitate flight....
...Jean-Claude Rivalland, a founding partner of Allen & Overy’s Paris office, is joining Norton Rose Fulbright’s corporate, M&A and securities practice in the French capital....
...You know, he hits me with a ruler.”...
...Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, by Peter Heather, Allen Lane £35, 736 pages Jane Shaw is professor of the history of religion at the University of Oxford Join our online book group on Facebook...
...The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire: 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras, Allen Lane £30, 368 pages The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy by Diana Darke, Thames & Hudson £30, 288 pages Peter Frankopan is professor of...
...Accident also played its part, with promising heirs carried off by disease or rulers losing their minds, such as the Ottoman ruler known as “Ibrahim the Crazy”....
...The leader of the government uses its power to suppress independent institutions and the opposition and then emerge as an absolute ruler, as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin have done...
...In August 1960, the head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, telegrammed his station chief in Léopoldville: “If [Lumumba] continues to hold high office, the inevitable result will at best be chaos and at worst pave...
...of rulers at the top....
...But Gen Allen pointed out that counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan were a “very challenging undertaking without credible ground controllers”....
...As did Innumeracy, by John Allen Paulos. I wish Tim Harford’s book the same. Bradley LucierProfessor Emeritus, Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN, US...
...He joins from Allen & Overy. Former US congressman Will Hurd has become a managing director at Allen & Company, according to his LinkedIn profile....
...Today’s Indian rulers, Sen fears, are attempting to stamp out its tradition of openness....
...For Roger Garside, today’s rulers in Beijing are less secure than they may appear. In China Coup (University of California Press, May), he ponders the end of one-party rule....
...“She would like to be . . . appreciated for being in the middle, but there isn’t a middle any more that matters,” Mr Allen added....
...The unintended consequences of taxation are brought to life with the story of the British colonial rulers in Sierra Leone, who introduced a hut tax in 1898 only to spark a rebellion....
...Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian ruler of Belarus, underestimated both this determined woman and his own battered country’s desire for change....
...JrSecretary of Education: Michael BennettAdministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Jay InsleeSecretary of Health and Human Services: Michelle ObamaSecretary of Housing and Urban Development: Cory...
...Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture, by Sudhir Hazareesingh, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 464 pages Ben Horowitz is a technology entrepreneur Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books...
...The answer to the first, Gessen argues, is to create an autocracy: a regime in which the ruler is above the law and the ruler’s word is law. Trump does not want orderly government or rational policy....
...Some said his enigmatic acrostic AEIOU stood for the legend “Austria is ruler of the whole world”; others “the chosen eagle rightly conquers all”....
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