This paper offers a comprehensive consideration of the economic policies of the administration of President William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001) with regard to answering the question "Was it neoliberal?"

This paper, based on the author's prior work, endeavors to condense into a brief, succinct discussion of the resourcing of Britain's military position, discussed here as "semi-superpower status," in the 1945-1971 period

This paper considers the background to the subject of the sixth generation jet fighter plane now under development for several countries' armed forces, situating it within the context of the "generational" classification system for such aircraft, and the political, military and economic context...

This paper extends its author's earlier use of Joseph Tainter's theory that a tendency toward diminishing returns on investments in complexity is the source of the collapse of complex societies to analyze the current trend of international economic life, and its implications for international...

Since at least 2016, and certainly in 2019, it was common for economists to write of the U.S. economy being at "full employment." This paper undertakes a critical examination of the data relevant to the question as it stood in early 2019, considering the multiplicity of employment measures;...

Advocates of orthodox (i.e. neoliberal) economic policy have often pointed to the economic performance of the U.S. as indicative of those policies' superior results. This paper critically examines such claims by comparing U.S. economic performance in the neoliberal era with its prior performance...

"The Neoliberal Record: Growth: A Second Look" is a follow-up to analyses the author published in 2018 and 2019. It specifically reexamines the available time series' on Gross World Product for the sake of fuller evaluation of the performance of the neoliberal era within the longer-run of modern...

This paper attempts to concisely detail the evolution of Britain's post-war defense posture. Dividing it into six phases between 1945 and 1979 its emphasis is on the trends with regard to defense spending as a share of GDP, the manning of the forces, their mission and deployment internationally,...

It is the conventional wisdom that fiction about spies and espionage became less popular after the Cold War, but this is generally claimed in a casual, intuitive way. This paper attempts to check this wide belief against the data provided by the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly bestseller...

This paper presents an analysis of the rise and decline of British economic predominance which emphasizes the interaction of geography with other economic, technological and political forces amid a context of other actors similarly shaped by such interactions. It argues for this interaction as...