Philosopher Bertrand Russell once said: "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think ...

In both eras, the proliferation of economic sanctions and embargoes caused great powers to fear that they would be cut off from critical resources. Their reaction to that threat, in turn ...

In 1932, Georges Lefebvre published his study ‘The Great Fear of 1789’ in France. It examined the rumours and panic that gripped rural France over concerns that aristocrats were out to settle ...