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A protester against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2014 with "Liberty" written on his hands.
Las raíces del estado de fallido venezolano
A protester against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2014 with "Liberty" written on his hands.
当前委内瑞拉危机的历史根源
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