Austria-Hungary was a powerful empire on paper, but beneath the surface it was a fragile union of rival nations held together by compromise and fear. Ethnic nationalism steadily undermined loyalty to ...

Russian Czarism undoubtedly represents a cruder and more barbarian form of state organization than does the feebler absolutism of Austria-Hungary, which has been mitigated by the weakness of old age.

India may not be heading for the same fate as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but that doesn’t mean the example is flawed. Last week, Franz-Stefan Gady wrote an excellent article comparing India to the ...

Joseph Roth’s magnum opus, The Radetzky March, is perhaps one of the greatest novels that emerged out of the carnage of the First World War describing the dying days of Habsburg rule in Central Europe ...