Rise of nations: Why do empires expand and fall?

Book Review: Tim Wu, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

REVIEW ESSAYS Nations, Empires, and Wars

Waves of War is destined to be influential— and controversial. This book examines nationalism, ethnic strife, and war. These topics are not only prominent in the headlines but also of interest to comparative historical sociology, political sociology, and macrosociology more generally. While the topics are familiar, this is a challenging book. Andreas Wimmer presents a novel theory, creates new ...

Why Do Nations Trade ( So Little ) ?

There isn't nearly as much trade as standard models suggest there should be. Formal trade barriers and transport costs are too low to account for the difference. The pattern of missing trade has interesting variation across country pairs. These clues suggest the need for theoretical and eventually structural empirical work on the missing transactions costs. This paper reviews recent empirical f...

The Rise and Fall of Periphrastic Do in Affirmative Declaratives

Due to the extensive collection of data, published by A. Elleg̊ard in 1953, it is possible to analyze the development of periphrastic do in English from the late fourteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Some of the most important results can be found in [1], [2], and [3]. The main contribution of [1] is the use of the S-shaped logistic curve to model the change in frequency...

The Rise and Fall of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

This article examines the rise and fall of the Peace Process and questions the reason for which the United States of America was successful in bringing the two sides to the negotiating table during the 1990s. It investigates the reason for which the process ultimately failed, as well as the reason for which Washingtonwas unsuccessful in restarting the peace process in the past decade. It is arg...