Most history books and articles increasingly tell a standard story about the fall of the Berlin Wall: the Soviet Union could no longer economically and militarily handle competition with the West, and brand-new Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to initiate a policy of glasnost (transparency) and perestroika (restructuring) in the mid-1980s. Together with
Six months, six years, six decades – this is how Ralf Dahrendorf (1990) summed up, in a remarkably succinct way, the post-democratic transition: creating the institutions of parliamentary democracy, laying the foundations of a market economy, building civil society. The future looked clear and bright as a single three-dimensional transformation joining the ‘end of history’.
Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo is confident that the introduction of the Halo won’t prove a big challenge for drivers. The FIA has mandated the use of the cockpit protection device on all cars for the 2018 world championship season. Fans remain divided on the Halo. However, drivers and team personnel are increasingly coming on board
Red Bull is scrambling to get Daniel Ricciardo’s car back into working order after a dramatic exit for the RB14 in final practice. Ricciardo suffered what the team called a turbocharger failure in Shanghai after completing only four laps in FP3. “I think we’ve got a suspected turbo failure,” Red Bull team boss Christian Horner
The people of Libya and Tunisia both overthrew long-standing dictatorships in popular uprisings in 2011. Four years later, however, the current political situation in these two neighboring North African states could not be more different. The reason has much to do with how their authoritarian regimes were overthrown. In January 2011, a popular unarmed
Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo underwent minor surgery after the Chinese Grand Prix, with a procedure involving an infected wound to his lip. After his Shanghai triumph, the Aussie did some simulator work at his team’s base in Milton Keynes before undergoing the operation in London. “It took me five days to get back to Monaco
Ahead of Prime Minister David Cameron’s first-ever visit to Jamaica, the British government is facing growing demands to apologize and pay reparations for the country’s “haunting” legacies of slavery, colonialism, and native genocide. In an open letter published Monday in the Jamaica Observer, chairperson of the Caricom Reparations Commission Hilary Beckles declared: “We ask not
Honda F1 technical director Toyoharu Tanabe says the manufacturer is determined to keep its head down until it is winning and becomes number 1! Honda’s new relationship with Toro Rosso has brought performance and reliability back to the fore for the engine supplier after its dismal three-year partnership with McLaren. While it’s early days still
McLaren fell well short of its aim of putting both its cars in the top-ten in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix, with race director Eric Boullier “astonished” by the team’s under-performance. In an early sign that the session would likely be a complicated one for the Woking-based outfit, Fernando Alonso barely made it into
In the wake of Greece’s historic ‘No’ vote this weekend, European leaders are scrambling to cement a new deal after the resounding rejection of the austerity program that has heretofore dominated fiscal policy and conversation. European Parliament President Martin Schulz confirmed that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will address parliament plenary on Wednesday morning. Tsipras