Despite the long-forgotten nature and complexity of the matter, let’s try to understand what exactly caused the great powers ...

It is well known that European royal families tend to marry among each other to either maintain or expand their power-base. Yet the Danish King Christian ix managed to take it to a whole new level.

Little Denmark has next to no army or navy. Yet in the last 13 years it has won more territory proportionately to its size than any other world nation. Last fortnight the Permanent Court of ...