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… 11 fighting each other in the streets of New York City. Unionized firefighters scuffled with police officers. … site, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged the firefighters’ union to cooperate with his downsizing of the search for … Zero? When the mayor of New York tells firefighters who are nationally celebrated as heroes to listen to his authority …

… constituencies of the umbrella opposition group, the Syrian National Council (SNC), are staunch non-Islamists. Two weeks … Party. The regime also cultivated closer relations with the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic and the other …

… of the country's economic allies, including the European Union and the United States, withdrew aid and levied … impoverished. For this, the country's officials blame international actors. President Obama is not convinced, seeing … Mugabe, then a leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), further elicited female support for the war …

… St. Basil’s Cathedral. Nearby, a row of monuments honoring Soviet “Hero Cities” for their sacrifices in the Second … does it permeate Russian culture. The panoply of enduring national myths and symbols prominently displayed in Moscow … 1941, earning it the title of “Hero Fortress” of the Soviet Union. Consequently, Dmitry Donskoy’s victory against the …

… turbulent Middle East. The United States and the European Union favor placing Iran before the United Nations Security … States negotiated with its most potent adversary, the Soviet Union. President Eisenhower, with the leaders of France and Britain, met with the Soviets at the 1955 Geneva Conference. Before leaving, …

… the Balfour Declaration, promising to help establish a “national home [in Palestine] for the Jewish people.” Arabs … Arabs to date. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, international sympathy for the Zionist endeavor grew, and the … its victory over Iraq and with the simultaneous decline of Soviet influence, the United States gained new credibility …

… any partnership on Iran taking steps to meet its “international obligations.” On the Iranian side, Rouhani … were an intolerable threat. Led by Great Britain and the Soviet Union, they invaded Iran, forced Reza Shah to abdicate, and … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… created what the War of Independence had not: Canadian nationalism and a sense of Canadian collective identity. The … Jr., a historian in Washington D.C., is a co-founder of the National History Center. …

… fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, states’ rights and national security.”   There’s an irony here, though. The Tea … to tax and to regulate interstate commerce and created a national government that for the first time had executive … the Tea Party folks are fiercely distrustful of the national government, especially its power to tax, even …

… other liberal democracies.  For example, under the archaic National Security Law, North Korean literature and … Fatherland Liberation War,” deny the importance of Soviet or Chinese assistance in helping the North Korean … KPA. Mao Zedong’s own son died during the conflict. Soviet leader  Joseph Stalin , reluctant to engage the U.S. …

… to step down following his election victory that the international community deemed illegitimate. The U.S. has also … It has been banned in 32 countries, including the European Union, but is still widely used in developing nations. Sarah … the sort of lodestar of Cold War strategy of containment of Soviet Communism is jeopardized, because the public will …

… and socialism, social equality, and some forms of nationalism. While this may be the case in practice, as … industries that resulted in a large industrial and unionized middle class. The programs of state intervention … States, which attempted to counter increasing communist and Soviet influence in the region by backing brutal military …

… and Origins editor Nicholas Breyfogle about the international race for the arctic . He tells us about the complex … particular, the 1920s and 1930s when it was the year of the Soviet Union. This was a time where were Russian polar explorers … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… on Mexican film, and the construction of Mexican national identity. Welcome, Reyna. Reyna Esquivel-King   … where we do see a massive land reform and, of course, the nationalization of oil in 1938. He kind of takes that legacy … it did come up. It wasn't nearly as much of a part of the national conversation as I think it gets projected in our …

… of manufacturing jobs from place to place, and international trade like NAFTA and the TPP. He also explains why … on behind the news. I'm your host, Patrick Potyondy. International free trade and along with it, the movement of what … the late 30s and 19 early 1940s, up through the early 70s. Union density goes up and then it goes down, inequality goes …

… memorials play in American memory, and how does the National Memorial to Peace and Justice seek to correct that …

… army and government, under the control of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP or the Unionists), first resorted to limited security measures to … capital, and the global spread of the Wilsonian promise of national self-determination politically energized the …

… of  China ,  Japan , and the United States. And Philippine nationalism has often struggled to assert itself against … on February 27. Cold War Pragmatism: Between the U.S., Soviet Union, and China On July 4, 1946, the United States … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… have an annoying habit of reaching conclusions contrary to national policy. The House of Representatives, disturbed by … act, HR3077, to bring one group of experts, those in international studies, under stricter government control. This … will alter the disbursement of federal funding for international or “area studies” programs. These interdisciplinary …

… people in the world and another 260-plus million international migrants, humans today seem to be on the move. … secure Great Britain's, you know, leaving the European Union. If this is not enough to show this, right? I mean, … discrete national groups. So the white Russians fleeing the Soviet Union in a Bolshevik Russia, was defined as one of …

… imaginaries. How else can we explain, for example, that the national leader Slobodan Milosevic’s call for Serbia’s … of military victories in order to exploit them [ The Soviet Myth of World War II ]. On the local level, a … perestroika and the years following the fall of the Soviet Union , Vladimir Putin mobilized the Great Patriotic War to …