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… Recent years have seen Brazil take on an ever bolder international profile, a trend that is unlikely to change under … land. Investors also feared that the former metalworker and union leader would place little value on fiscal and monetary … to strengthen Brazil's regional leadership by forming the Union of South American Nations and re-launching Mercosur, …

… 1913, Ludlow miners (pictured above in 1914) had struck for union recognition; the company's obedience to Colorado's … 1914, the strike had been completely broken. The Colorado National Guard arrives near the camp of the striking miners. … County, there are no neutrals there. You'll either be a union man, or a thug for J.H. Blair [Harlan County …

… being prepared to fight a massive tank battle against the Soviet Union for control of Europe, the administration believed, … The conflict spawned the Cold War and an arms race with the Soviet Union. This decades-long confrontation forced the …

… the difficult journey to member states of the European Union in their ongoing search for safety. By extension, it … as internally displaced persons outside the scope of international legal conventions, or have found shelter in … took account not only of Nazi policy but also of Soviet totalitarianism. This is a long and convoluted story, …

… of war, Yemen teeters on the brink of what the European Union has described as “the world's largest humanitarian … largest humanitarian crisis, according to the European Union, is an all too human affair, the war in Yemen or the … can turn this question over to Austin. In 1968 there was a Soviet correspondent named Pavel Demchenko and he was the …

… crisis since the Great Depression. In the fall of 2009, the national unemployment rate peaked at 10.1 percent and today … are hard to come by, but according to some accounts, the national unemployment rate climbed as high as 17 percent. … than denounced, government action. In his State of the Union Address in January 1983, Reagan proposed the extension …

… policies might induce the Confederate states to rejoin the Union, or might at least ensure that the four border slave states still in the Union (Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland and Missouri) would not … the possibility of an accidental collision with allied Soviet forces moving in on Berlin from the east. He also …

… under the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has … financing from the superpowers: Egypt’s Aswan High Dam with Soviet assistance, Brazil’s Companhia Hidro-Elétrica do São … hardworking, and honest man and who toiled in communion with beneficent nature.  Eventually, Israeli settlers, …

… the alternatives Dolley offered us at the dawn of the national experiment. In the early days of the nation, few of … of California, Riverside. She is the author of "A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American …

… would include women, Susan B. Anthony moved on to form the National Women's Suffrage Association. Kimberly Hamlin So … of their followers in the group they formed, called the National Women's Suffrage Association, started to say that … however, some of the women in what was again called the National Women's Suffrage Association made a novel argument, …

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively to the … with the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union each primarily responsible for peace and order within … Diplomacy/International Relations … International Organizations …

… for the revolt had been laid by liberal and radical nationalists based in the cities. Together they forged a … later showed no sign of tolerating Iraqi self-government. Nationalist leaders watched with increasing alarm as British … Baghdad and the southern port city of Basra convinced nationalists in the capital that the moment was ripe for …

… socialism and communism that they watched develop in the Soviet Union. This was the era of McCarthyism, after all, in the … very active in Republican policy, but mostly in terms of national defense. She felt that the United States wasn't …

… who, in the peak Cold War years, had allied Cuba with the Soviet Union. But the exiles' relationship with Washington began … Castro. The powerful and conservative Cuban-American National Foundation, the political heavyweight of the many … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… Control , Steffen Rimner examines how this revision of international thinking came to be. The shift, as Rimner charts … and non-governmental organizations. They created an international movement against the opium trade. By broadening the … actors as diverse as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Sharada Saran (a school for girls in Bombay …

… on the basis of sex. Now, in an atmosphere of renewed national attention on issues affecting women, this proposed … of women, gender, and sexuality in the Americas and transnational feminism.   Katherine Marino  Good morning. Thanks … the years, thinking about work changed in the 1960s, when union and wage-earning women came on board, and they reached …

… representatives began in Frankfurt on March 31, and the new National Assembly met for the first time in St. Paul’s … would set the Confederation on a path toward a more unified national future, perhaps with the King of Prussia as the head of state. In the end, though, the National Assembly did not achieve those long-term goals and …

… is that? Because states will resist. Setting the date of national elections is one of the few powers that the … over election rules allows state politicians to influence national politics indirectly. Examples from both the recent … election guidelines. The threat of terrorists disrupting a national election might overwhelm this constitutional custom …

… They gave new insight into the convergence of an international network of business interests and the political … the system of colonial companies. The best known was the Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK, Mining Union of Upper Katanga), which controlled copper mines in …

… and promoted in recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the U.S. draw contemporary … existing culture for the worse is a common view among white nationalists in the US, and existential fears of losing what … and promoted and recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the US draw connections to …

… second time at the end of September 2015. Does Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or “BJP,” also spell a … Cold War, that gave anxiety to the US at times and to the Soviet Union at times. So that's the history that we're that were … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… leadership in France, dedicated to a conservative “National Revolution”—were to blame for the attack was hardly … Georges Kubler of France’s investigative body, the Sûreté Nationale, were determined to find out. And so begins … 1940. Less than a month later, on July 10, 1940, the French National Assembly would vote to end the Third Republic and …