In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ag

A historian and anthropologist use demographic and economic factors to explain the waning hegemony of the United States.

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a

DIVA collection of essays arguing for a global and economically based modernity driven by capitalist development./div

Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of