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Boredom and the British Empire The promise of exotic thrills in distant lands built up expectations which inevitably collided with a mundane reality. Erik Linstrum | Published in History Today3 March 2019 Having a laugh: an English family at morning tea in Simla, India, 1871. Was the British Empire boring? As Jeffrey Auerbach notes in his irreverent new book, it’s an unexpec..

イギリスはいかにして強国となったか【連載】ビジネスに効く! 世界史最前線（第16回）2019.2.23（土） profile 玉木 俊明JB Press 12世紀半ばに建造されたリーヴォール修道院跡 　いまイギリスがEUから離脱する「ブレグジット」で揺れています。その狙いをせんじ詰めれば、ヨーロッパ諸..

[현미경] '브렉시트 엑소더스'… 유대인·위그노 떠난 스페인·佛 닮았다조선일보 파리=손진석 특파원 최아리 기자 입력 2019.02.08 03:00 기업·인재들 영국 탈출 러시 250여곳, 네덜란드로 본사 이전… 독일 국적 취득 2년새 12배 급증 지난달 25일 런던의 유럽의약청(EMA) 본부에서 직원들이 로..

The Death of Europe Has Been Greatly Exaggerated Brianna Rennix Current AffairsJanuary 07, 2019 Genteel xenophobes may be less blatant than Ann Coulter, but they are not better… The last anti-immigration polemic I reviewed for Current Affairs was Ann Coulter’s vicious and deranged Adios America! Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, ..

2019年、ヨーロッパの民主主義が試される年になる ベルリンの壁崩壊から30年、なぜ欧州諸国は大衆迎合政治に向かうのか 舛添要一 Japan Business Press2019.1.5（土） 1989年11月、「ベルリンの壁」が崩壊した（写真：Picture Alliance/アフロ） (舛添要一：国際政治学者) 　近代以降、ヨーロッパ..

CNN poll: Anti-Semitism in Europe By Richard Allen Greene CNN Anti-Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade, a sweeping new survey by CNN reveals. More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and..

Yellow Vests Protests If Macron Fails, Europe Fails French President Emmanuel Macron has tried to calm protesters by raising the minimum wage, among other concessions. But if the yellow vests continue eroding his authority, it's not just France that will suffer. And Germany is partly at fault. A Commentary by Henrik Enderlein Spiege Online December 17, 2018 05:59 PM Michael Bu..

Babylon Berlin The German Capital at a Crossroads Berlin is changing. That's nothing new, of course, but even as integration challenges have resulted in crime in some neighborhoods, others are trying to find ways to avoid the stasis that comes with gentrification. Success is uncertain. By Lars-Olav Beier, Hilmar Schmundt and Volker Weidermann Spiegel Online December 17, 2018 1..

Paradoxes of participation: Democracy and the internet in Russia 1991–2018 Andrei Soldatov Eurozine11 December 2018 The nascent internet played a key role in defeating the military coup in Russia in 1991, writes Andrei Soldatov. However, the democratic promise of the web was never fulfilled. In the 2000s, it became a means of escape for a disaffected middle class closed out o..

Photos of the Paris “Yellow Vest” RiotsAlan Taylor The AtlanticDec 2, 2018 25 Photos In Focus A third weekend of protest in Paris, France, turned violent on Saturday, as thousands of “yellow vests” (gilets jaunes) battled with riot police, burned cars, and damaged property. The protest movement began largely focused on anger toward rising fuel taxes, but has grown into ..