Personal Highlights:

• If the West ever falters, America will want to become less Western. As the fulcrum of world power moves away from the West, so will America. One senses
• Beijing promises local rulers help in increasing their ability to develop policies and deliver results. From the perspective of these rulers – limited as one...
• Letting the statue stay would be a sign of public acceptance of the British legacy. Investors in Europe and America took notice.

Personal Highlights:

• On a more subtle level, all the Western powers, including the Ottoman Empire’s/Turkey’s chief ally in the war, Germany, continued to refer to the city...
• Arab Revolt to which Lawrence became affiliated was, to use his own words, “a sideshow of a sideshow.
• Through cutthroat tactics devised by its principal shareholder, John D. Rockefeller, Standard had so thoroughly dominated the U.S. petroleum industry over the previous four decades...

Personal Highlights:

• Today, Ras Al-Khaimah is one of the poorest of the seven emirates of the UAE. For this, they hold the British responsible.
• 175 years of uninterrupted succession is probably unprecedented.
• Sheikh Maktoum saw the low-hanging fruit. He launched a plan to make Dubai the most business-friendly port in the lower Gulf. He abolished the 5 percent customs