A must read. The debt of Tunisia and Egypt in the 19th century and the colonisation of the two countries by France and Britain The analysis includes a critique of Ali Coşkun Tunçer‘s chapter in Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51