international relations

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/28/2020
  

  The forgotten alliance between Black activists and China

  by Chang Che

  Black activists have long leveraged American desires for international legitimacy to forge antiracist alliances with China. Today, the Black Lives Matter movement has received support from Beijing, but must consider the costs of an alliance with a regime with its own human rights issues. 

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• 9/13/2020
  

  Richard Haass on the Need for Historically Informed Policy in a Changing World

  by David O'Connor

  "A democracy requires that its citizens be informed, and it was evident far too many citizens in the United States and other countries could not be described as globally literate."

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  8/20/2020
  

  Between Africa and America: Recalibrating Black Americans' Relationship to the Diaspora

  by Nemata Blyden and Jeannette Eileen Jones

  Black people in the United States have maintained their own relationships with Africa—dating back to the 17th century—despite official US policy regarding the continent.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  8/17/2020
  

  Trump's Dodgy Israel-UAE "Peace Deal" Smells like the Work of Henry Kissinger

  by Jim Sleeper

  Is the Israel-UAE agreement to open diplomatic relations an effort to marginalize the Palestinian Authority? Jim Sleeper argues it's the sort of thing Henry Kissinger would do. 

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• SOURCE: Z Blogs
  8/4/2020
  

  China and the United States Could Avoid an Unnecessary War

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Both the Chinese and U.S. governments are engaging in reckless behavior that could lead to disaster.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/3/2020
  

  To the World, We’re Now America the Racist and Pitiful

  The United States, long the bedrock of the Western alliance, is less inspirational today—and perhaps will be even less so tomorrow.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/10/2020
  

  How the US Government Sold the Peace Corps to the American Public

  by Wendy Melillo

  Given the growing counterculture movement in the early 1960s, the government feared that few young Americans would be motivated to join the Peace Corps by a message that they’d be volunteering to help to fight communism. 

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• SOURCE: Council on Foreign Relations
  6/5/2020
  

  How America’s Credibility Gap Hurts the Defense of Rights Abroad

  The U.S. government’s response to anti-racism protests risks causing lasting damage to American credibility and influence in protecting minorities and oppressed groups worldwide.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/7/2020
  

  Yes, America Is in a Cold War With China

  "For too long the U.S. has looked the other way as the Chinese Communist Party has waged a new cold war against the American order," writes Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/4/2020
  

  The Damage Trump Has Done This Week Extends Far Beyond America’s Borders

  by Mary L. Dudziak

  Concern that Orval Faubus's defiant stand for school segregation in Arkansas would sully America's reputation abroad pushed Dwight Eisenower to deploy the National Guard in the interest of both racial justice and American leadership. Calls to deploy the military today must consider this context.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/29/2020
  

  The ‘Liberal World Order’ Was Built With Blood

  by Vincent Bevins

  American politicians, pundits and citizens need to understand that the history of American influence in the world has included violent subversion of democracy in the name of American interests.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/11/2020
  

  The Myth of Henry Kissinger

  by Thomas Meaney

  Barry Gewen's new biography of the American national security figure argues that Kissinger's perspective was shaped by stories older German emigres told him about the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/10/2020
  

  Can the Democrats Avoid Trump’s China Trap?

  by Rachel Esplin Odell and Stephen Wertheim

  We stand on the brink of an even more destructive and less justifiable mistake than the post-Sept. 11 crusade.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  Are We Repeating Some Chapter of World History?

  by Peter N. Stearns

  Did I hear some smart aleck student mumble something about Santayana?

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• 5/10/2020
  

  The Real Thucydides Trap

  by Waller R. Newell

  Classical histories are in vogue as explanations for the Coronavirus-fueled tensions between the United States and China. A political science scholar argues that an influential theory gets Thucydides backwards.

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• 5/3/2020
  

  Trump’s Attacks on the WHO Evoke Nostalgia for George W. Bush

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  George W. Bush's promotion of cooperative international health initiaitves to fight HIV-AIDS is a bright spot in his presidential legacy.

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• 4/19/2020
  

  American Women at the UN: From Breakthrough to Dumping Ground?

  by Philip Nash

  More women belong in senior foreign and national security policy positions—at State, Defense, the National Security Council, and beyond—and not just at the United Nations.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/10/2020
  

  William R. Polk, Historian and Middle East Envoy, Dies at 91

  Over six decades, Mr. Polk delved into multiple careers, working in and out of government, writing, co-writing or editing more than two-dozen books and traveling the globe, often to hot spots.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  How Will History Judge Trump’s Foreign Policy?

  by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

  Our 46th president, whenever he or she arrives, will confront a changed world, partly because of COVID, but also because of the effects of Trump’s personality and policies.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/27/2020
  

  Coronavirus Shows the Perils and Promise of Globalization

  by Samuel Zipp

  During the first age of “America First” in the 1940s, Wendell Wilkie's campaign challenged Americans to confront a discomfiting idea: Our lives depend on the well-being of many millions across the world.