Martin Walker

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Martin Walker on Geert Mak's European travels. 

A Road Trip Through History

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A new era of globalization dawned in December 2001, with the West passing the torch to China and India. 

Globalization 3.0

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The Atlantic and Pacific now dominate the world's politics and trade, but the Indian Ocean is emerging as a new locus of power that increasingly unites China, India, the Middle East, and Africa. 

The Indian Ocean: Nexus of the 21st Century

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Neither the immigrants nor the Europeans are playing their assigned roles.

The World's New Numbers

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Martin Walker considers the forces that shape history. 

Making History

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Reviewing a new study of Islam and the modern world.

A Modern Problem

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An era of debt-fueled consumption has come to an end, and with it the economic culture that created it. If government is going to fill in for consumers, it will need to be smart about how it spends.

The New Normal

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How England's 1688 Glorious Revolution represented a battle between two competing projects of modernization. 

Britain's Big Year

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It is not easy to be funny about the Germans, and unusual to be affectionate about them.

Germany, With a Side of Quirk

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The key to the Industrial Revolution was a great change in the way people spoke and thought about the merchant and the manufacturer and their values.

To Get Rich Is Glorious

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To see how the world will eventually right today’s massive trade imbalances, look to the Atlantic, not the Pacific.

The World Trade Revolution

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It was, Kennan wrote, as if Dulles had asked his wife for a divorce, but added that he liked the way she prepared scrambled eggs and would she cook a quick plate for him before leaving.

The Uncontainable Diplomat

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Take some favorable demographics, add a generous shot of American ingenuity, and stir in a very large quantity of natural gas, and you have the beginning of a bright new American future.