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...

This paper extends the author's prior use of Joseph Tainter's theorizing on complexity and diminishing returns to the upsurge in political and economic nationalism and international conflict seen since 2008

This 2011 article attempts to put the post-Cold War period (1990-2010) into perspective and argues for its having been defined by six key trends: 1. The receding of great power conflict 2. A shift from interstate to intrastate warfare, with both forms of conflict concentrated on the system's...

This 2004 paper started with the then oft-made comparison between the War on Terror and World War II and explicitly asked the implicit question — the ability of the U.S. to sustain a World War II-like mobilization for military or other purposes. It concluded that the trend with regard to...

"A Long-Term Trend Toward The Depletion of Fiscal-Macroeconomic Slack in the World Economy?" is the author's 2008 (pre-crisis) attempt to update the line of thought he pursued in his 2004 International Security article "Societal Complexity and Diminishing Returns in Security."

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,...

This article considers the evolution of images of the future — the "flying cars" of mid-century and the promises of freedom, empowerment and uplift for all more recently identified with the Internet, virtual reality and the Singularity — and explains the image, and their associated...