meiji 150 as the end of an era

As yet, neither Germany nor Italy was a fully unified nation-state. The United States was still recovering from the Civil War. ... After 1868, Japan, Germany, Italy and the U.S. all developed as modern nation-states and set out to become global powers in their own right. ..

germany's merkel calls for a european union military

As a deadline looms for Italy’s eurosceptic government to re-submit budget plans to the European Union, Merkel said the euro zone would only work if all member states meet their treaty responsibilities . . ... “We want to extend a hand to Italy,” she later said. “But Italy..

remembering world war i in the middle east

France, Italy, and Greece were all given zones of influence in southern, western, and central Anatolia while Greece also made large territorial gains in Thrace. ... However, in a humiliating development for Britain, only New Zealand supported the call for bellicosity, while France and Italy..

coyote blog » history

What would have been FDR & Churchill's negotiation position at Yalta if their armies were not even on the continent (excepting Italy, where we might still be fighting in 2014 and getting nowhere)? ... Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, FDR, france, germany, Italy, Russia, Scheldt Estuary,..

monopoly, fascism and antitrust

One of Italy’s leading jurists has noted that, ‘lurking behind the spectre of populism is the risk of an oligarchical degeneration of constitutional democracy’. [ 36] Except that the degeneration is no longer a risk, it is a reality. . ... Since the financial crisis there has been an..

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