The French Revolution and Its Implications

I think the relative peace of western europe has led to this complacency and forgetfulness about what european history was like, basically before 19 50. I don't know how wise if i was a policy maker at a high level, i might have my doubts about trying to use those grand historical ideas to deal with a crisis. But from our perspective, just trying to understand the world, i think you can play around with those sorts of abstractions, right? The otherthing i wanted to say, just regards ti should have likedhesthese bigger ideas. And with regard to kind of the ways in which western westerners have underestimated the power of democracy and the power of