Political

A short editorial by Michael Trend.

Edited by Frank Wende

As a political thinker Cicero has been all manner of things to all manner of men. In order to understand Cicero's political ideas, however, we need to look at the world of Rome in the first century BC, argues J.B. Morrall.

1982 marks the tercentenary of the death of Prince Rupert, the most brilliant of Charles I's generals. As Hugh Trevor-Roper here documents, he was single-minded in his chosen craft of war, but Rupert was never able to grasp the complexities of the contemporary situation.

Hew Strachan reviews historians' approaches to the Great War.

Jean-Pierre Lehmann explores Japan's transition from isolation to internationalisation.

Richard Sims looks at Japanese fascism in the 1930s.

The Japanese Emperor Hirohito, introduced by Richard Storry.

James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, is best remembered, according to Esmond Wright, for his personal integrity and the scholarly application which he brought to constitutional questions in which he collaborated with Thomas Jefferson.