Word and the Sword

After studying political science and economics as an undergraduate, Leonard Dudley took his Ph.D. in economics at Yale University. He is currently Professor of Economics at the Université de Montréal, where he teaches courses in public economics and international economics. Author of numerous papers in scholarly journals on the economic aspects of international relations, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and the Institute d’Etudes Politiques of Paris. His present research is on the explanation of international and intra-state conflict. “A very thoughtful and interesting piece. Dudley shows a masterly grasp of complex issues and is dealing with subject matter that is vital for us all to think through thoroughly”. Douglas C. North, Professor of Economics, Washington University.

• Ziggurats in the sand; the age of Gilgamesh; the shattered mirror; hexagon dynamics; the eclipse of the caravans; sonderweg or railway; the Petrograd paradox; the atomization of America.