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A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

… 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 …
Ukrainian refugees sheltering beneath a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022.

“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine

… 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 …
Marines from 1st Battalion 7th Marines enter a palace during the Battle of Baghdad.

Iraq War a Major Departure in American Foreign Affairs

… and idealistic such action might have been, defense of our national interest guided our actions in both World Wars of … century. As in the World Wars, in the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the United States was not a preemptive combatant. It …
Thomas Sankara

Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso

… Burkina Faso, or Land of the Dignified People—gained international attention as it charted a new path toward social, … Party or PAOD. And in 1974, a communist led trade union federation was formed known as the CSV. In addition, … culture. And here, there was modeling the modeling was the Soviet Union in the 1920s, and cinema on wheels. And they …
Image of President Carter displayed in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC. Portrait by Robert Templeton.

Obama Can Learn from Jimmy Carter, Too

… will have to make over the next four years to achieve the national goals he sets for them. These goals include a … people to limit their consumption of oil to achieve a national goal. He asked Americans to think about the balance … Carter, right or wrong, was out of step with the national mood.   Barack Obama, by comparison, inherits a …
Image of Jimmy Carter during his ‘Malaise’ Speech.

Should Obama Deliver Another ‘Malaise’ Speech?

… will have to make over the next four years to achieve the national goals he sets for them.  These goals include a … people to limit their consumption of oil to achieve a national goal. He asked Americans to think about the balance … Carter, right or wrong, was out of step with the national mood.   Barack Obama, by comparison, inherits a …
Graffiti reading "Ireland a Nation, Irish and Free"

The Provisional Irish Republican Army

… sense of allegiance toward the United Kingdom. Known as Unionists, they monopolized political and economic power. The remaining third of the population, known as Nationalists, were Catholic and usually identified … that Catholics were due as citizens of the United Kingdom. Unionists feared that Catholic equality might be the first …
The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Critique of NATO’s Expansion

… and Poland, former East European satellites of the former Soviet Union, were admitted to the North Atlantic Treaty … … Economics/Business/Trade … Cold War … Diplomacy/International Relations … International Organizations … Critique …
Chinese EVA spacesuit "Feitian".

China’s Manned Space Program: an Opportunity for Cooperation

… dominate reactions in the United States. In April 1961, the Soviet Union made Yuri Gagarin the world’s first person in space. … great cost was too much for the rewards. Domestic and international political and propaganda considerations drive the …

Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill

… insurance came to be seen, in the years following the first National Conference on Aging (1950), as the best solution to … populated National Conference on Aging, the Army and Navy Union of the U.S.A., the International Typographic Union, the Croatian Fraternal Union of America, and the Pi …
Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.

Episodes of Ambivalent Empire

Review of “Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by : Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021)
… In 2019, John Bolton, briefly National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump , said … coverage of the three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union . Their answer to the question of whether the United …
"Where do we go from here?," a 1920 cartoon depicting the League of Nations Covenant and the Treaty of Versailles

The Versailles Treaty Fight

… was long remembered is as a conflict between Wilsonian internationalists and so-called “isolationists.” According to … deeper American participation in global affairs and international organizations. The latter desired to isolate the … Supposedly, the isolationists represented a deeply rooted national sentiment that went back to George Washington’s …

From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?

… to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and heightened international tensions. The Gaza imbroglio has been the latest … saying) complex, combining conflicting land claims of rival nationalist movements, religious emotion, international strategic factors, and basic disagreements over the …

An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History

… later, in 1792, Congress created what was then a huge new national program when it passed the Postal Act. The act … transportation network necessary for this, it chartered the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad corporations. The … large-scale transportation projects that started with the Union and Central Pacific railroads and also included …
U.S. Department of Homeland Security seal.

Sharing the Burdens of War

… reelection campaign in 1864 because of uneven support for a Union effort that critics called “a rich man’s war, a poor man’s fight.” The Union had adopted a draft but allowed men to avoid the army … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms

… supplier in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He acquired a fleet of Soviet military aircraft … the weapons’ sales are legal in the context of shifting national and international law. Bout also exemplifies the …
Tilden illustration - a hand on another hand that is on a gun on a table with papers

Top Ten Origins: Other “Unprecedented” Elections in American History

… political norms, permanently altered the composition of national political coalitions, or revealed structural … between Breckinridge and John Bell, of the Constitutional Union party. Although Bell earned some votes in the lower … to the emerging Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Republicans therefore thought their nominee, …

"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent

… 23, 2011, I arrived for a morning of research in Senegal's national archives, in the coastal African country's capital … from the presidential palace and around the corner from the National Assembly. The night before, there were disturbances … years old and already in office for 11 years, had asked the National Assembly to approve two major revisions to the …

We Won’t Shut up and Dribble: A Short History of Black Athletic Protest

… he was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia. The clip sparked national outrage, especially since the local police … White jockeys also excluded black riders from their union. In 1900, jockeys in New York conspired to exclude … Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand for the National Anthem in 1996 to protest America's racism. Yet the activism …
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.

All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire

Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… aspect of English-style liberal economics for their own nationalist ends.  This is not to say that Bryan dismisses … statist economic institutions, restrictions on trade, and nationalist ideology united in pursuit of the of the … away from the silver based (and French-led) Latin Monetary Union.  In the United States, where coining silver halted in …
The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

With God on Our Side

… is on our side, President Bush assures us. Speaking at the National Cathedral on September 14, 2001, he declared that … evil.” The service ended with the singing of the Civil War anthem, “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” To rid the world of … the presence of slave states such as Kentucky in the Union required that he temper his convictions with …
man with a gun in a holster

Top Ten Origins: Gun Regulation

… the standard U.S. musket and decided there was “risk to the national safety by adopting new inventions without being … limit gun possession. 8. Early Federal Legislation The National Firearms Acts of 1934 and 1938 required … through the U.S. postal system, Congress passed the National Firearms Acts of 1934 and 1938. These laws required …
John F. Kennedy and Dr. Alvin Weinburg at the Graphite Reactor Oak Ridge National Lab in 1959.

The Dangers – Then and Now – of a Pre-Emptive Strike

… So far the Bush administration has wisely allowed the international community to take the lead in responding to the … been halting but still hold promise. Recently, European Union officials discussed diplomatic and economic sanctions … but he also thought he had a better idea. He believed Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev could be persuaded to take …
Florynce Rae Kennedy (center), a U.S. black feminist protesting outside The International Women’s Year Tribune (UN Photo by B. Lane).

The 1975 Mexico City World Conference on Women

… Conference of Women (WCW) was the capstone event of International Women’s Year, the UN’s response to the transnational women’s liberation movement sweeping the globe. Poster for International Women's Year, 1975. Mexico City had not been the …