"All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, ...
The conceptual uncertainty when dealing with processes of integration and disintegration in Europe is striking because traditional notions of the nation-state, constitutionalism, sovereignty, and federalism do not account for emerging realities in either Western or Eastern Europe.
This volume takes us through the bizarre landscape of late-20th century culture. It considers topics as diverse as Elvis worship, the erotics of cyberspace, fantasies of the millennium, multiple personality syndrome and the molecular logic of insect DNA.
