Twentieth Century

The 20th (twentieth) century began on January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. Unlike most century years, the year 2000 was a leap year, and the second century leap year in the Gregorian calendar after 1600. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear weapons, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts; intergovernmental organizations …

Wikipedia

Publications

MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 25 April 2024 English

During the last ten years, several issues such as the Arab Spring, the emergence and spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the COVID-19 pandemic, oil price …

rivalry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, observes that the “scramble for connectivity


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

This data-as-bodies approach offers a situated perspective on the implica- Edwards and Gabrielle Hecht, “History and the Technopolitics of Identity: The Case of Apartheid South Africa,” Journal of Southern African …

disproportionately target marginalized groups.3 Twentieth-Century South Africa,” African Studies Review 44,


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 23 April 2024 English

THE REFORM OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE: TOWARD A SYSTEM THAT DELIVERS FOR THE SOUTH THE REFORM OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE: Toward a System that Delivers for the South …

easily structure of such debt in the late twentieth century. At the extended to other parts of the world


WIL: World Inequality Lab · 22 April 2024 English

We find that the different inequality levels in Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria in the first half of the 20th century were the result of a more “developed” social structure in the …

Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the Twentieth Century INCOME INEQUALITY IN EASTERN EUROPE: BULGARIA BULGARIA AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY STEFAN NIKOLIĆ FILIP NOVOKMET PIOTR PAWEŁ LARYSZ WORKING Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the Twentieth Century† Stefan Nikolić‡ Filip Novokmet§ Piotr Paweł Bulgaria and Czech Lands/Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century. Relying on newly-constructed datasets and inequality in Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century. Keywords: Income inequality; social tables;


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 19 April 2024 English

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the French Review Commentaire and Knight of the Legion of Honor. [...] Under the direct supervision of Professor Abdelaziz Aitali, the …

Snyder, On Tyranny, Twenty lessons from the Twentieth Century, Tim Duggan Books, 2017. • Timothy Snyder


Public Citizen · 18 April 2024 English

4 An “assessment of the applicability of a state law to federal civil rights litigation … in light of the purpose and nature of the federal right,” id. [...] Requiring …

courts … emerged in the latter decades of the twentieth century as the forum of choice for an increasing number


U4: U4 Anti-corruption Resources Centre · 18 April 2024 English

Conceptualising the drivers The role of the financial and service industries in and forms of corruption facilitating transnational corruption has climbed the research agenda in recent years. [...] And regulatory …

grew in the latter half of the corruption twentieth century when leading scholars a. Transnational corruption drivers of corrupt behaviour. At a the late twentieth century, when the likes of macro level, corruption


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 18 April 2024

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the French Review Commentaire and Knight of the Legion of Honor. [...] Under the direct supervision of Professor Abdelaziz Aitali, the …

Snyder, On Tyranny, Twenty lessons from the Twentieth Century, Tim Duggan Books, 2017. • Timothy Snyder


Policy Exchange · 17 April 2024 English

The lecture, which I had the pleasure to hear delivered in January this year, was a tour de force, illuminating both the idea of human rights and also the ideal …

although of course for much of the early twentieth century this legislation was routinely quashed by


Cato Institute · 15 April 2024 English

Historically, the mission of higher education was to preserve, discover and disseminate the truth. While many professors still strive to do so, too many colleges have abandoned this mission, instead …

and massive school boycotts. By the early twentieth century, Belgians finally opted for state‐ funded


View more