New perspectives on how history is made
Compensation for historically disadvantaged minorities is nothing new.
Spanish explorers brought 100 slaves to a doomed settlement in South Carolina or Georgia. Within weeks, the subjugated revolted, then vanished.
The world order created after World War II has begun to collapse.
The growing issue of veteran suicide and how to solve it rarely focuses on the history of the problem.
Newly declassified documents show why the Americans and the Soviets came so close to war in 1973.
Obama will visit the Belgian cemetery Wednesday.
Putin cited the breakup of the Soviet Union and the tenth-century baptism of Prince Vladimir, among other examples.
Too often self-determination is a mere excuse for territorial acquisition. Just ask Hitler. Or Milosevic.
Putin and Rouhani are rapidly uniting behind an anti-American banner.
Hawkish talk by U.S. politicians and Putin-as-Hitler comparisons are turning the crisis in Crimea into a powder keg that could harm our allies in the region.
America should have learned its lesson in 1954: firepower is not enough to win wars.
Moscow has a stock market.
In the nineteenth century, relations between the U.S. and the Russian Empire were nothing but cordial. Could that happen again?
Despite all the recent WWI analogies, Sino-American relations may more closely resemble an earlier time.
Why America’s strategic rebalance is really just retreat.
A growing chill between South Korea and Japan over history creates problems for the U.S.
Good relations between Moscow and Cairo do not preclude good relations between Cairo and Washington.
But the Japanese prime minister endorsed the continuing presence of U.S. forces in Okinawa.
How the Pentagon is using your tax dollars to turn Italy into a launching pad for the wars of today and tomorrow.
British firms received licenses to sell chemical agents to Syria in 2012... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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