England’s connection to France went back to the Norman Conquest ... but their reigns created instability within the Angevin Empire they had inherited. King John was crowned after King Richard ...

But France and Germany had the misfortune to ... idea is whether liberal democracy endures in the absence of Anglo-American empire. In the interwar period, however, liberal democracy—divorced ...

After establishing their empire as the world’s most powerful ... debt in peacetime as no great power had since France in the ...