Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (1)
(Emeritus Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, UK)
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We are in the grip of a global economic crisis. Like crises in the past, it threatens to drive us apart, with nations struggling to survive rather than cooperate. We have only to remember the 1930s to see how grim the prospects could be. Desperate politicians then erected trade barriers, extreme nationalism took hold, and in 1939 a second world war broke out...... Read more