Millions of people, Muslims, Jews and Christians and others not only still idealize a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present.
In the modern West, we assume loyalty to the state and thus fail to consider how states can secure the loyalty of their people. Rome teaches us why this is a mistake.
Technology may accelerate movement and compress physical space. But it does not necessarily shrink strategic space, the ability to project power affordably across the earth.
The Japanese conservative position on war responsibility is pushing China and Russia together, and it’s inadvertently reinvigorating Cold War divisions in Asia.
