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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European cities experienced unprecedented growth as huge numbers of people moved from the countryside to newly booming metropolises.
But it remained a minority view, favored by environmentalists and animal protectionists, and Aquinas’s interpretation remained the prevailing Catholic doctrine until the late twentieth century.
In the twentieth century, theorists such as Langdon Winner extended this line of thinking to other technologies.
Adrift in Trump’s New CenturyWASHINGTON, DC – The late British historian Eric Hobsbawm famously called the period between Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in 1914 and the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 the “short twentieth century.”
But Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States represents a definitive break from the past; the long twentieth century has now come to a close.
These trends are precursors to a very different international model that has yet to emerge – one that will be distinct from both the nineteenth century’s “balance of power” and the twentieth century’s “community of states.”
For most of the twentieth century, this framework applied only to a core group of countries; but with the end of the Cold War, it was suddenly available to all.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the welfare state and the open economy have been flip sides of the same coin during much of the twentieth century.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, many central banks used intermediate targets, including monetary aggregates.
Then, in the twentieth century, airplanes moved us even faster.
But at a time when every digital service becomes more and more personalized, why should social policy remain confined to the philosophy and solutions of the twentieth century?
The process of globalization in the late twentieth century led to a sharp divergence of incomes between those who industrialized and broke into global markets and the “bottom billion” in some 60 countries where incomes stagnated for twenty years.
Indeed, this was the Urkrise – the event that made the twentieth century so terrible.
But such debates largely stopped in the twentieth century, partly because they challenged democracy’s universality.
Preserving the Ottoman MosaicLONDON – The roots of the Middle East’s many conflicts lie in the unraveling of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century and the failure since then to forge a stable regional order.
And it was a process that kicked off two decades of devastating wars – the first at the beginning of the twentieth century, the second in the 1990s.
The world’s major powers are far more interdependent financially and in terms of supply chains than they were in 1914 – the year of misguided optimism that pessimists love to cite – and the cumulative horrors of the twentieth century have fundamentally changed the normative environment.
Once upon a time, such contracts were enforced by armed intervention, as Mexico, Venezuela, Egypt, and a host of other countries learned at great cost in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Many commentators have labeled Deep Blue’s triumph one of the most important events of the twentieth century.
The twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe reminds us that we should not forget the horrible lesson taught to the world in 1986.
Industrial output soared to 40 times its level at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Just as Hitler was driven by the desire to reverse the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI, Putin is focused on reversing the Soviet Union’s dismemberment, which he has called “the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the twentieth century.”
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Muslim thinkers – most famously Jamal al-Din al-Afghani – believed that embracing many of the ideals developed in the West during the Enlightenment was the only way to promote progress.
But, as the twentieth century progressed, Muslim reformists lost ground to secular nationalists emphasizing socialism as the path to modernization.
During the twentieth century, the US recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents, 14.7%, in 1910.
The twentieth century was dominated by a debate over the social organization of the human condition based on alternative concepts of history and even of human personality.
The twentieth century was a criminal century, in terms of its ideological debates and political expression.
Vladimir Putin famously described the break-up of the Soviet Union as the greatest geo-political catastrophe of the twentieth century.
Chernobyl’s Myths and MisconceptionsThe twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident of April 26, 1986 is prompting a new wave of alarmist claims about its impact on human health and the environment.
The twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident is an ideal occasion for all actors to do some honest soul-searching.
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