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 ...