Economics of Imperialism

Few countries can exert much power in the rest of the world. There are just five permanent members of the United Nations Security Counci...

    Discovering Imperialism: Social Democracy to World War I is an anthology put together by Richard Day and Daniel Gaido, in which they ...

[ Note added 14 September 2021: An update to the Index of Power, with some improvements to data, especially that of using total foreign inv...

In recent weeks, a couple of dozen sperm whales have ended up on beaches in the UK, Norway, France and Germany, when normally these h...

War is a continuation of politics by other means, and politics is concentrated economics. That is why the history of British military at...

This is an update to the chart on the ‘Index of Imperialism’ published on this blog six months ago, on 1 May. The change made here is th...

There are close to 7 billion people in the world, in some 200 countries. However, a very small minority of rich, powerful countries - or r...