... the Greeks called thumos is bound to fail. Using an original data set of all wars since 1648 (the Peace of Westphalia) involving great or rising powers, the essay shows how wars associated with honor, standing, and revenge, all expressions of thumos , far outnumber those caused by security or material...

... presence in the Holy Land (1097 – 1291). Explored here is how each party overcame this incongruity between ideology and praxis and sought a “small peace,” which is temporary and practical, rather than “great peace,” which is a final settlement. Features of these peace-making efforts examined here include...

..., History, European great power. Of course, this martial image of Peter has its own, pecu- • liar provenance. Although it can be traced back to nineteenth-century nation- alist ideologies and to eighteenth-century legitimations of empire, its most recent Platt vogue was during the 1930s...

.... allies foreign look toits could and term) Anglo-Saxon the (to use “multiplemonarchy” the in partner chief the was however,Fortunately, Castile ofempire-building. purposes the served ill economy weak and population small Its great-power status. orsustain create suffi had never...

...- Waley-Cohen • Imperial Trauma: Part 3 105 COMMON KNOWLEDGE 106 among the great powers of the world in their time. worldtheir ofthe in powers great the among ranking as empire their wereregarding not deluded in rulers considerable...

... (London: have the books dedicated to Lorenzo, who had not only Phaidon, 1954), 66. great power but was vitally interested in antiquity. Leonardo’s Last Supper is now described as an object of repulsion reminiscent of a Neapolitan marketplace; his Mona Lisa...

..., and an aesthetic of simulation and dissimulation, and evidently these systems can be made compatible with one another much more readily than with sober rea- CK 9.2-01 Nádas 3/14/03 10:37 AM Page 184 son. Their politics is national and great-power selfishness raised...

... for and Empire Byzantine the under ries followed that peace the drafting in and War Great the in role decisive its since power   States United world.Eventhe the of capital cultural the was Paris(together...

... the generations, for the “exceeding great and bitter cry” that Esau— identified with Europe—wailed.) The Jews have been objectively powerless for most of their long history, but objectively does not mean much in a context where the ultimate power appears...

... and heart. Solzhenitsyn stubbornly insisted that Russia needed a system of zemstvos (from zemlia , land), local self-governments, and in this conviction he was a great realist. But he also assumed that the post-Soviet federal power should absorb Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. He believed...

... was observed, deVitoria Francisco theologian sixteenth-century great the as Indians, American onthe war Making ruler. same ofthe subjects wereequally dominions overseas ofthe European, and indigenous both itants, fi legal the at least preserved tosome degree powers imperial...

... to reports and diaries, pictures, songs, poems, photographs, publicletters, and personal articles, newspaper uses Sollors understanding, and insight powerful well). With as culture American (and affected time of the songs and novels, plays, movies...

... break up and disperse power; and (2) a lottery can serve as a trusted mediation or agreement between parties, because the resultant decision is anonymous. sortition Aristotle's Constitution of Athens Friedrich Engels nonpartisanship democracy The aim of this second instalment...

... generally been thought most percep- tible in terms of loss of control, loss of power over native and other populations, loss of wealth and individual status—all surrendered to a successor from within or nearby, and often accompanied by a loss of faith. This fate is seen...

... Great War anomie, and fear of the coercive power of modern powerof modern coercive ofthe fear and GreatWar anomie...

... encroachments on freedom.” Brunkhorst has a lot of sensible things to say about, for example, the street protests at the G8 meetings, the powers of the German Federal Constitutional Court and of its EU counterpart, and the possibility that 9/11 and its likely follow-ups may, in the longer run, encourage...

... “private economic encroachments on freedom.” Brunkhorst has a lot of sensible things to say about, for example, the street protests at the G8 meetings, the powers of the German Federal Constitutional Court and of its EU counterpart, and the possibility that 9/11 and its likely follow-ups may...

... encroachments on freedom.” Brunkhorst has a lot of sensible things to say about, for example, the street protests at the G8 meetings, the powers of the German Federal Constitutional Court and of its EU counterpart, and the possibility that 9/11 and its likely follow-ups may, in the longer run, encourage...

... to say about, for example, the street protests at the G8 meetings, the powers of the German Federal Constitutional Court and of its EU counterpart, and the possibility that 9/11 and its likely follow-ups may, in the longer run, encourage international cooperation. Devotees of Realpolitik...

... of sensible things to say about, for example, the street protests at the G8 meetings, the powers of the German Federal Constitutional Court and of its EU counterpart, and the possibility that 9/11 and its likely follow-ups may, in the longer run, encourage international cooperation. Devotees...