Politically the 1910s and 1920s were dark days for Japan: economic instability, frequent political assassinations, and increasing violent military interventions at home and overseas affected many...
Credits Japan's industrial success to innovation and training, looking at the pre-War period and in depth at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard. The book has implications for industrial development...
Finally, a political economist with the lived experience and academic background necessary to explain Pope Francis's disdain for today's rightwing ideologies of populism, nationalism,...
Populist nationalism fuses beliefs that citizens are being exploited by a privileged elite with claims that the national culture and interests are under threat from enemies within or without...
This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism's tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good vs. evil" terms.