#OpenAccess#NewRelease
The ‘Mediterranean World’
European Power Politics and the Geographical Mind, 1571–1973
Rolf Petri, De Gruyter , 2026
https://t.co/6or4pmQxtv
PDF 🎯
https://t.co/Uy98J0XuDK
Rolf Petri – ‘He could not trust this people.’: Germany in the Mirror of Erich Kuby (Interview with Susanna Böhme-Kuby)
https://t.co/pmdorlEynO
“Under Nazi rule, the Germans were finally able to live out their arrogance towards others and their great-power fantasies, which had dominated them since the 19th century.”
#History #Germany #Politics #Fascism
The ‘Russian Threat’ against European Unity: Variants of an Old Tale
Rolf Petri @rolf_petri
braveneweurope/rolf-petri-the-russian-threat-against-european-unity-variants-of-an-old-tale
At least since the time of the Great Northern War (1700–21), the allegation of Russian ambitions to conquer Europe has been spun and disseminated by Western diplomatic and political circles, mostly on the basis of projections and forged ‘evidence’.
#Russia #History #Europe #imperialism #UkraineRussiaWar
Interesting papers on ifo Schnelldienst 76 (2023) n. 3, pp. 1-30 on de-industrialization in Germany; open access and pdf download: https://t.co/bLgpiFQ8J8
In the past year, due to the proxy war in Ukraine, Europe quickly replaced Asia as the top market for US LNG.
France is the top importer, followed by Spain and Britain.
Meanwhile, "European gas prices have remained higher than anywhere else in the world"
https://t.co/kvcoRdn1lk
That clip is from this excellent overview of diesel and refining w @aeberman12 : https://t.co/KDWr0v9flo A barrel of oil contains SO many products -and each tranche has to be distilled off to get to the heavier product.
==>Hard to get off oil even w zero gasoline demand!
Steve Keen did it again. This Manifesto is a lucid deconstruction of fallacies in neoclassical economics
The New Economics - A Manifesto by Steve Keen @ProfSteveKeen
Reviewed by Dirk Besemer
https://t.co/K2c2cUbeEe
#economics#MMT@politybooks