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, accidents, crises were once local. A drought in California was, largely, a drought in California. A slowdown in China hit Shenzhen or Shanghai, not South America. Now, as networks overlap and influence each other, crises cascade at a new, stunning and comprehensive scale. And while we know 56 “It is one thing

decisive mark of leadership and success in revolutionary periods. Consider, for instance, Charles, the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel who faced down Napoleon on the fields of Jena in what is now central Germany in October 1806. Brusnwick-Wolfenbuttel was then 71 years old. He was considered one of the most

rs to one. His men were masters of the subtle techniques of Frederick the Great, tactics that had delivered victory in far more perilous moments. But Napoleon, less than half the Duke’s age at 37, stared across the same undulating land, the same poised armies and saw in the landscape something completely 4

y emanating from Europe — between the mid- 1700s and the early 1800s. Important tipping points early in the 1800s shape the destiny of North America, South America, and India. The revolutionary wars originating in Europe matter a lot for that. Let's zoom in on one example, a place I did not mention in my presen

st power in the countryside still held by local Javanese rulers. After Holland was conquered by the French republic then empire (and ruled by one of Napoleon's brothers), distant Java was taken over and turned upside down by a Franco-Dutch revolutionary regime (1808-1811). Then a dictatorial British occup

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e of the artwork has been recovered. According to the article, Boston jeweler Paul Calantropo says he was shown a recently stolen eagle finial from Napoleon's Imperial Guard by his friend Bobby Donati. It was one of 13 artworks recently stolen in a robbery of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. FBI

also filled with enduring, stable arrangements - moments where the balance settles a bit and a single power dominates. Asia, Europe, the Middle East, South America - each produced nations that stretched mastery the system for generations, for centuries even. If you map the rise and fall of nations and empires ov

ciples of power in a connected age. “Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederick,” Napoleon wrote once. “Make them your models. This is the 147 | was thinking: Dan Geer, “Cybersecurity as Realpolitik”, speech delivered at BlackHat, August 6