A Europe losing cohesion

Ever since France's defeat in 1870-1 in the Franco-Prussian war, when military strength was identified with numerical superiority, demography, language and culture have become permanent parts of, and, at times, the focus of French politics. 

... Reuven Brenner holds the Repap Chair at McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management and is member of the Board and Investment Committee of McGill Pension Fund. His most recent book is Force of Finance.

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