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A protester against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2014 with "Liberty" written on his hands.
The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State
Refugees at the Macedonian border in 2015.
The Question of Refugees: Past and Present
Yale students leaving class in the 1950s.
From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American "Elite"
Crowds watching Obaysch.
What's All Happening at the Zoo?
A 2016 protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock
A container ship in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Trade Wars: The Collapse of America's Free Trade Consensus
Chinese Banknotes.
The United States, China, and the Money Question
Color bars in a television test pattern.
Media and Politics in the Age of Trump
Flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia--People's Army.
Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?
Flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia--People's Army.
Colombia: Al Borde de la Paz con las FARC?
Hajj pilgrim at Masjid al-Haram.
The Hajj and Europe
A woman walks by revolutionary graffiti in Cairo.
Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates
Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary
Abubakar Shekau with other Boko Haram fighters.
All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram
Demonstrators at the civil rights march on Washington, D.C. demand an end to police violence, August 28, 1963
Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story
NATO and Russia in close proximity again. A U.S. F-22A Raptor accompanies a Russian Tu-95 near the Alaskan NORAD Region airspace, 2007.
NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War
Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek.
Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport
Campaign poster for the Good Friday Agreement.
Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace
The flight of Greeks from Asia Minor in 1922.
Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation
Artwork of the Battle of Chaldiran (1514).
The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq
A United States twenty-dollar bill.
Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina
The glowing skyline of Singapore's Central Business District.
Singapore at Fifty
Philippine naval vessel, BRP Mangyan, and crew.
A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics