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members of the Tea Party holding signs

The Great American Debate Recommences

… 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 …
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.

The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War

… 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. …
Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.

The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)

… 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 …

Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America

… 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 …
The aurora borealis over the Arctic

Climate Change, Russia, and the Race for the Arctic

… 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 …
Border Fence/Wall

Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations

… enforcement regime.   Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Were international disputes like the Zimmermann Telegram during World … to make a distinction between what government officials and national governments...the rhetoric they use between one … dictated by the concerns over the Cold War and communist Soviet infiltration into the region. So in that regard, …
Andrés Manuel López Obrador in front of Mexican flag

"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation

… 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 …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election

… of manufacturing jobs from place to place, and international trade like NAFTA and the TPP. He also explains why … the late 30s and 19 early 1940s, up through the early 70s. Union density goes up and then it goes down, inequality goes … and American change, question the influence of labor unions and explore why he sees similarities between the …
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper Book cover.

Is It Only A Game?

Review of Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper (New York: Nation Books, 2012)
Lynchburg Virginia Confederate Monument

Confederate Monuments: Why Take ‘Em Down? What Do We Put Up in Their Place?

What role do Confederate memorials play in American memory, and how does the National Memorial to Peace and Justice seek to correct that memory? Should we preserve or purge Confederate monuments from public spaces?
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… memorials play in American memory, and how does the National Memorial to Peace and Justice seek to correct that …
Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, leaving the country after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, 1922

The Long End of the Ottoman Empire

… 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 …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… 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 …
Pakistan to US Student Exchange Program, July 2011.

Captive Scholarship Serves Nobody Well

… 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 …
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 …