mall krone macron has organized a peace force of 60 world leaders to help with eroding global cooperation. are these dangers so real and pressing? if you compare the world today, it feels less like the 1930s than the 1920s. economic growth and technological progress were accelerating then, as now. we are also seeing a surge in nationalism and the breakdown of cooperation, which were the hallmarks of the 1920s. new great powers were ascending as they are now. democracies were under strain from demagogs such as in italy when mussolini destroyed liberal institutions and established control in the 1920s. and this was all amid the growth of populism, racism, and anti-semitism which were used to divide countries and exclude various minorities outside the