Aside from the atomic bomb, this is the most dangerous security development in two centuries.

They were devised more than two centuries ago for a mostly agrarian world.

LONDON Two centuries ago, Napoleon s arrival in Egypt heralded the advent of the modern Middle East.

The intense personal hatred between these men overlays two centuries of tortured history between Russia and Georgia.

But about two centuries before David, the Hittites had discovered the secret of smelting and processing of iron, and, slowly, that skill spread.

BERLIN Two centuries ago the American and French Revolutions brought forth the natural law concept of inalienable human rights.

For the Haitian people, last year was supposed to be a year of celebration marking the bicentenary of its victory over slavery and colonization.

Taking advantage of the French bureaucracy s precision, Piketty was able to reconstruct the French national accounts over nearly two centuries.

Perhaps the moral and intellectual tide will be reversed, and America will remain exceptional for the reasons that Tocqueville identified two centuries ago.

There can be two, very different Asian centuries, and the one that emerges will have profound consequences for the region s peoples and governments and for the world.

Two centuries after French troops were run out of Moscow in 1812, Putin has succeeded in making a French popular idol want to be Russian.

The nation state has been, and continues to be, the relevant unit of belonging and civic involvement for most human beings for more than two centuries.

Like the American revolutionaries of two centuries ago, Indian nationalists fought for the rights of Englishmen, which they thought the replication of the Houses of Parliament would both epitomize and guarantee.

For two and a half centuries, economists have believed that the flow of spending in an economy goes up whenever groups of people decide to spend more.

For the first time since the Revolutionary War, two centuries ago, America has had to turn to foreigners for financing, because US households have been saving nothing .

After a couple of centuries of relative stagnation, these two countries, containing nearly two fifths of the world s population, have experienced remarkably rapid income growth in the last three decades.

In this short, optimistic talk from TED2009, Pete Alcorn shares a vision of the world of two centuries from now when declining populations and growing opportunity prove Malthus was wrong.

For China, a deeply self confident country, to be back simply means regaining the country s historical centrality in the world after an absence of more than two centuries.

However, it took nearly two centuries of wars, political and social disasters, and decolonization before this idea became globally accepted, at least in theory.

In any case, it is certain that the current text of the Treaty will not survive more than two centuries (as has the United States' Constitution), or even two decades.

India s growth pattern is remarkable because it contradicts a seemingly iron law of development that has held true for almost 200 years, since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

American forces performed disastrously at the Battle of Bladensburg in August 1814, allowing the British to capture and burn the capital.

Climate research dates back at least two centuries, to Joseph Fourier s discovery of the effects of greenhouse gases on planetary climates in 1859, John Tyndall demonstrated in his laboratory which gases cause this effect.

Two centuries later that was no longer the case by the end of the nineteenth century, median living standards in Britain and other countries to which the Industrial Revolution had spread were, for the first time in recorded history, light years above any neo Malthusian benchmark of subsistence.

Rather, costs are low because for almost two centuries colonial powers and then domestic governments hobbled markets and restricted international trade, leaving a legacy of wages so low that they offset weaker productivity.