Blogs in History

End of the Western Model

The emergence in the early 1990s of India’s ‘Look East’ policy confirmed an important shift in thinking about the future direction and aspirations of major developing countries, in this case the former jewel in the British imperial crown. Looking East suggested that India would find its future destiny not primarily ...

Luigi Einaudi: An Italian Politician Worth Remembering

Professor Jeremy Jennings, Director of the Centre for the Study of Political Thought at QMUL, on the Italian politician Luigi Einaudi. Over recent years we have become so used to reading about the comic behaviour of Silvio Berlusconi that it is tempting to imagine that the entire Italian political class is ...