International Relations

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Middle East
Foreign Policy and the 3 Branches of Government
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?
Last Supper By Simon Ushakov, 1685
Reverence and Relics: The Holy Dead in the Pre-Modern Christian World
Press coming from Sochi during the recent Olympic cycle
2/21/14: On Distorting Russia
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman
After Midnight
marriage of Marguerite of Anjou and Henry VI in 1445
Power Behind the Throne: The Women of the War of the Roses
Photo of William Colby
Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA
Iranian postage stamp commemorating the shooting down of Iran Air 655 in 1988.
Viewpoint Iran: The Past and Present of the U.S.-Iran Standoff
Euro coins.
European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?
The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan Book Cover.
Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.
Fifty Years and Counting
This Cold War-era poster carries the slogan 'Chairman Mao is the great savior of the revolutionary peoples of the world' and an illustration of African freedom fighters reading a copy of Mao's little book of quotations.
A New World Order? Africa and China
The aurora borealis over the Arctic
Climate Change, Russia, and the Race for the Arctic
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Book Cover.
Hanoi Central
This detail from an early-20th-century image over the entrance to an arms factory in Belgium depicts a European arms manufacturer selling a gun to a darker-skinned purchaser in an exotic setting.
"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms
Sputnik
Soviets Launch Sputnik, 1957
Cover of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand
The End of the World as We Know It?
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.
A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404
In 2007, Russia planted a titanium flag in the chilly arctic depths at the North Pole.
Russia and the Race for the Arctic
The statue of Saddam Hussein topples in Baghdad's Firdos Square on April 9, 2003.
A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq
In the last fifty years, global agricultural practices have favored growing ever fewer varieties of high-yielding crops, leading to fears that the loss of genetic diversity in food leaves the growing human population exposed to risks of food shortages from disease, pests, and climate change.
Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks
Soldiers patrol the boundary between Eritrea and Ethiopia after two years of fighting in 2000.
Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping
A U.S. Coast Guard sailor stands guard over more than 40,000 pounds of Latin American cocaine seized in 2007 and valued at around $500 million.
The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking