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Then he proved much less reticent about issuing a verdict on capitalism.

In between, he proved much more appealing in Noah, which opened with £2.51m.

A second son, Rajiv, took over after her death, and although he proved much less authoritarian than his mother, his weaknesses helped pave the way for the rise of the Hindu right in the 1990s.

But if Mr. Ramo is adept at assessing the precarious state of today's post-cold-war world — in which nation states face asymmetric threats from the likes of terrorists, drug cartels and computer hackers — he proves much less convincing in articulating practical means of grappling with such daunting problems.

Nine months later, the tyrant has been captured and his government toppled, but making peace in the troubled land he ruled has proved much more difficult than making war.

"Until you prove that, you haven't proved much," he said, comparing the impact of Mr. Hollande's actions with that of President Obama's decision to approve the raid on Osama bin Laden.

But he admitted that international interdependence "proved much greater than we had imagined previously".

The practice has proved much messier.