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The Fate of the Kurds	Sudan in Crisis	Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making
Human Rights at a Crossroads	Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution	Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea
A New Congo Crisis?	The Long Legacy of World War I	The Question of Refugees: Past and Present
Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?	All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram	NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War
Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective	A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation	The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow
Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones	The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing	Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama
A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq	Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping	From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?
From Baghdad to Kabul: The Historical Roots of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine	'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict	With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare
Clash in the Caucasus: Georgia, Russia, and the Fate of South Ossetia	Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya	Conflict Termination: How to End -- and Not to End -- Insurgencies
The Global Reach of the Napoleonic Wars	Political Economy in the Late Roman Empire	The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade
Russia’s Lost Empire	The American Civil War, Then and Now	From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War
A Fragmented History of Ancient Generalship	Six Days That Shook The World	Weathering the Storm: Wartime Lives of Ordinary People
Crimea: A General Introduction	A Forgotten Theater of War	Memories of Vietnam in Memoriam
A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe	Ukraine, In a Nutshell	The Collapse of Ottoman Power
"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism	The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back	…And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: A History of Contingency and Happenstance
An Imperial Person	"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"	Power Behind the Throne: The Women of the War of the Roses
Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA	Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century	Fifty Years and Counting
Capturing a Moment	Hanoi Central	How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex	Long Live the Soviet Motherland?	The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Bringing Evil to Justice	When Ethiopia Stunned the World	The End of the War as They Knew It
A Time For War	Guantanamo For Beginners	Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Iran for Beginners	How the Mighty European Military State has Fallen	The End of the World as They Knew It

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