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… Bush administration has wisely allowed the international community to take the lead in responding to the threat from … sanctions against Iran for the first time and urged Iran to comply with a United Nations request to halt its nuclear … an unprecedented wave of terrorism for generations to come. In this context, alienating our allies worldwide would …

… has been characterized by friction, contradictions, and competing visions of the goals of union. The most recent … local policy decisions remained in the hands of national bodies, many of these tensions could be debated in the … integration was resented and Euro-skeptics found ready audiences. For instance, the years immediately following 2004 …

… to Iran in 2007. Switzerland's Swiss EGL energy trading company recently completed a forty-two billion dollar agreement with the National Iranian Gas Export Company. Though European leaders said the right things on …

… understand why there is all this noise in the international community. If anyone wants to plant a flag down there, … that the Arctic holds in the Russian heart and spirit. Adieu Polar Bears: Climate Change and the Arctic's … ice could completely disappear as early as 2070. Many studies now suggest that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free for …

… not obscure the fact that this conflict, with all its complexity and tragedy, belongs firmly to the present. This … we’re watching happen today [Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? ]. Far from being a “war of the past,” (i.e. a … of cultures, emotions, the environment, and combatants’ bodies—is disregarded in demands that it do what it is …

… *which* Roman decline and fall is the best parallel. Some commentators prefer the fall of the Roman Republic as the … leads directly to the crisis of the present, “[Rome] had become a powerful metaphor to speak about the present and … Medieval …

… early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an … name. By one estimate, 20% of the world's fish catch comes from the extraordinary ecosystem called The Humboldt … an explorer into a conservationist. Alexander von Humboldt dies on p. 105 of this book, roughly a third of the way …

… “the Arab ego like a coat of armor.” He observes, “The smallest chink can threaten to loosen all the loops and … hospitality shown to his relatives — with tacit American compliance. Or Osama bin Laden’s operatives could have been … of Jordan’s crackdown on their conspiracies. Those who committed these atrocities no doubt believe that honor is …

… atmosphere. The second fact will be relearned in the coming weeks as we emerge from our shock at this tragedy and … of space is not how many astronauts and cosmonauts have died, but how few. Though there have been several close calls, no one has actually died in space. Far more people died during the early years …

… as they have from the furor last summer triggered by comments about Beijing’s human rights record made by Bob … Eisner, are individuals who otherwise have little in common. Nonetheless, looking back over the last twelve … months, each would be justified of asking of the Chinese Communist Party’s leaders: “With enemies like you, who needs …

… and state corrupted both institutions. The state risked becoming subject to religious controversies that would … religious creeds. Moreover, established churches risked becoming tools of the state rather than of salvation, favoring … increasingly, they believed that the right of a religious community to set the terms for membership trumped the …

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu on iTunes and on Soundcloud and as …

… one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a … measures imposed on Greece by Europe's central monetary bodies . A pro-refugee banner from Piraeus. (Photo by author) … our most frequent tasks was preparing baby formula—not an easy feat, given that all the instructions on the donated …

… wake of a mass shooting such as the one in Parkland, FL, commentators, pundits, and politicians all gather around to … ill. Darren Rainey, who suffered from schizophrenia, died in 2012 from burns to over ninety percent of his body … or psyche. In trying to find physiological origins for maladies, psychiatrists hoped they might treat schizophrenia, …

… Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Peter Mansoor, Professor and General Raymond E. Mason … Margaret Newell: Welcome! Thank you for joining us today for the “First 100 Days … an associate professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at OSU. She is a 2020-21 ACLS/Mellon Scholars and …

… “elected” president of Syria. The unrest resulted from a combination of socio-economic and political problems that … Alawites, furthermore, ignore Islamic sanitary practices, dietary restrictions, and religious rituals. The … For instance, they provided a disproportionate number of soldiers to the French mandate government, forming about half …

… and make their own choices free from the influence of the common people. Instead, nearly all states allowed the … the voter and the official a political machine with a complicated system of caucuses and conventions, by the easy manipulation of which it thwarts the will of the voter …

… threat to public health: the specter of a pandemic, and the complacent American response. The so-called "Spanish" flu … million people around the world, more than the number who died in World War I battles. In the United States it killed … Why should we have forgotten the modern equivalent of the medieval Black Death? Perhaps because it killed mostly the …

… supply global agriculture with one of its most important commodities: synthetic fertilizer. In the process, the … who had legitimate reason to believe that they had found an easy and affordable way to counter a significant public … an informal epidemiological study. He examined the local diet, soil conditions, and air quality, but eventually …

… corruption scandals, doping controversies and rampant commercialism have done so little to dent the popularity of … Olympic teams. Even before the First World War, sport had become, as one French official put it, "a matter of state." … a sign that the "Free World" was in danger of losing to communism. This thinking has given the Olympics a political …