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An Empire at Risk
We won the cold war and weathered 9/11. But now economic weakness is endangering our global power. Call it the fractal geometry of fiscal crisis....
Newsweek, 12/01/09 by Niall Ferguson · More from publication -
The Year the World Really Changed
Forget the fall of the iron curtain: the events of â79 matter more. What exactly was the historical significance of Nov. 9, 1989? Having spent...
Newsweek, 11/16/09 by Niall Ferguson · More from publication -
Wall Street’s New Gilded Age
A year after the crash, a few financial giants are back to making millions, while average Americans face foreclosure and unemployment. Whatâs...
Newsweek, 09/21/09 by Niall Ferguson · More from publication -
‘Chimerica’ is Headed for Divorce
When does a rising power become a threat? There is seldom a single moment. A century ago, AngloGerman antagonism was still a relatively new...
Newsweek, 08/01/09 by Niall Ferguson · More from publication -
The Axis of upheaval: forget Iran, Iraq, and North Korea--Bush's "Axis of Evil." As economic calamity meets political and social turmoil, the world's worst problems may come from countries like Somalia, Russia, and Mexico. And they're just the b
Seven years ago, in his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush warned of an "axis of evil" that was engaged...
Foreign Policy, 03/01/09 by Ferguson, Niall · More from publication -
Sunday Perspective: Keynes can't help us now
IT BEGAN AS a subprime surprise, became a credit crunch and then a global financial crisis. At last week's World Economic Forum in Davos,...
Oakland Tribune, 02/15/09 by Niall Ferguson · More from publication -
Sunday Perspective: Keynes can't help us now
$900 billion to more than $2 trillion since this crisis began, partly as a result of purchases of undisclosed assets from banks. Just how much...
Oakland Tribune, 02/15/09 by Niall Ferguson · More from publication -
Tale of two planets
Sometimes it can seem as if the news pages of USA TODAY are covering a different planet from the business pages. On Planet News things are...
USA TODAY, 05/01/07 by Niall Ferguson · More from publication -
Empires with expiration dates: empires drive history. But the empires of the past 100 years were short lived, none surviving to see the dawn of the new century. Today, there are no empires, at least not officially. But that could soon change if the United
Empires, more than nation-states, are the principal actors in the history of world events. Much of what we call history consists of the deeds of...
Foreign Policy, 09/01/06 by Ferguson, Niall · More from publication -
The shady side of the street.
I am by nature and upbringing a pessimist. As a boy in Glasgow I was encouraged to expect the worst, on the principle that by doing so you'll...
Queen's Quarterly, 06/22/06 by Ferguson, Niall · More from publication
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