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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… most popular social welfare programs." (p. 2). Indeed, the National School Lunch Program has been loved and hated by … II, Levine argues that nutrition was viewed as "a matter of national defense." National security during the war and postwar eras depended …

… articulated in a seminal Cold War document produced by the National Security Council in 1950, declared the importance of pushing the Soviet Union back from those territories conquered in the last …

… re-emerged in 1915 at Stone Mountain, GA and grew into a national organization in the 1920s. During the Civil Rights … Illustrated Newspaper ( right ). In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President … captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black …

… established the secret service in London in 1573, the first national intelligence organization in England’s history. … a network that aided in the escape of hundreds of Union prisoners and Confederate deserters. The Richmond … President Harry S. Truman only shared the information with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, part of the wartime alliance, …

… Europe and the Americas, Yehudai provides a fresh transnational perspective on the critical period surrounding the … and the Americas, Dr. Yehudai provides a fresh, transnational perspective on the critical period surrounding the … the boundaries may put themselves in conflict with the national project. And because of national anxieties, …