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… would be wise to heed Marshall's warning and rally the international community to increase food aid to the Afghan … strategic interest during the Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union. Today, Afghanistan is the center of the global …

… oppose the Republican minority’s check on power at the national level while appealing for judicial intervention at … and deride judicial review as anti-democratic.   At the national level, where Democrats enjoy a majority in the … a filibuster, or whether a state can refuse to implement a national law is too clouded by transient policy …

… Catalunya has had with Spain as well as with the international community. 1. The Nineteen Autonomous Regions of … inheriting their fathers’ kingdoms upon their deaths. This union of the crowns brought Catalunya into a loose … and its autonomous regions became members of the European Union (EU), which granted them the benefits of their …

… Segovia region that borders Honduras, was a stirring nationalist document. In it, he rejected the loss of … “Yankee” imperialism. Sandino’s plan was also firmly internationalist in its scope and effect, for his actions in … rebels would ultimately fail in their goal of achieving nationally-recognized autonomous rule within Segovia, their …

… Tactically, they are very good." Cyrus Mody of the International Maritime Bureau characterized the event as … Philippines. In the fall of 2008, the U.N., the European Union, the African Union, and the Arab League gathered to … over the Ogaden and shifting alliances, first with the Soviet Union, then with the United States, undermined …

… Mandela had been freed from prison, the ban on the African National Congress (ANC) had been lifted, and negotiations … of black South Africans in South African cities, the National Party (Afrikaner ethnic nationalists) became the majority party. This year marks the …

… These measures led many Europeans in Algeria and French nationals to view Algeria as not just a colony of France, … oppression, on November 1, 1954, a group of Algerian nationalists organized as the National Liberation Front (Front de Libération Nationale, …

… marriages there. The decision has already heightened the national debate concerning same-sex marriages. And if at … 1997 federal Defense of Marriage Act defines marriage as a union between a woman and a man. Recent polls indicate that … Already, both proponents and opponents of same-sex unions are digging in, using the same kinds of contentions …

… only with substantial help from its allies, including the Soviets, British, Canadians, Chinese and many others. When … World War II, went out of his way to snub Americans. A nationalist who pursued diplomacy independent of Washington, … of the large French Communist Party celebrated the pivotal Soviet victory over the Nazis at Stalingrad. They noted, …

… years, even if this report has inspired a string of other national initiatives in Europe. What accounts for the … for example, sold their work to both local and international patrons. Such a transaction is not the same as a … for the objects and collections, but rather their use as national symbols and museum and art objects. The …

… brunt of this food shortage. According to ActionAid International, women produce up to seventy percent of food in … Rising meat consumption also played its role. A Soviet Union determined to outpace American levels of meat-eating …

… UNESCO, French social scientist Alfred Metraux led an international team of researchers to Brazil. The purpose of the … their female slaves. Since by law the children of these unions retained the slave status of the mother, … had been ruled through a one party system, and labor unions had been dominated by European immigrants. Under the …

… of conflicting ideologies. On one side stands a proudly nationalist worldview, in which statehood was understood in … at most, some international diplomacy through the European Union and the United Nations. Sheehan does not discuss it, … does it mean to be a demilitarized state? Can the European Union ever hope to compete with the United States as a …

… Do you recall the battle not long ago over the proposed national standards for American history? When it was … agency of the federal government, an affiliate of the National Archives and Records Administration. This agency, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, …

… a quarter of its population today born overseas. As our national day, Waitangi Day now needs to serve as a symbol … as a result of separate colonies joining in a federal union and, unlike the United States , it never experienced a … or established a new constitution. The only anniversary of national origins that includes the European population must …

… their victory in the president's recent report on "The National Security Strategy of the United States." Now, like … virtues, could hardly have said it better. But the "National Security Strategy" turns these words into an excuse … "Free markets and free trade are key priorities of our national security strategy." So we must also bring …

… was also not primarily a struggle between two contending nationalisms—Armenian and Turkish—one of which destroyed the … a scenario presupposes that two well-formed and articulated nationalisms already existed in the early years of the war. … a woman and her son, photographed above. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP, the Young Turks)  elite was not so …

… ended in December 1972. Anti-Vietnam protesters on the National Mall in Washington D.C., 1967. Those who were alive … objective was to demonstrate that, after losing out to the Soviet Union in launching the first satellite into orbit and the …

… State University, where I teach courses on Eastern Europe, nationalism, migration, communism, the Cold War, among … have reacted differently, and I'm wondering if the European Union has complicated the reaction here or if it's made it … Dragostinova  There are no common laws in the European Union governing, I mean, the way asylum law is applied. I …

… But, as Mohamed ElBaradei, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has noted, terrorist groups … Service … Nuclear Power & Weapons … Cold War … Global/Transnational … Diplomacy/International Relations … What About the WMDs that DO Exist? …

… Afghanistan, 1996: In 1996, while living in the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan, three friends and I were … of the Ottoman Sultan, the reform-minded Young Turk nationalist movement gained in popularity and influence. It … rebellion. Then, on December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union launched a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan in …

… caused an uproar within the Argentine beef industry and national government. Exporters banded together to demand the … made no attempts to “stop the economy.” Indeed, many national officials considered cholera an unfortunate … and provincial levels throughout the nation. Meanwhile, a National Department of Hygiene did exist, but it had a …

… Minister Guido Mantega made news by claiming an "international currency war" had broken out. According to Mantega, … of the phrase "Sputnik moment" in his January State of the Union address none too subtly portrays contemporary China as analogous to the Soviet Union of the 1950s. The Historical Normality of …

… 5 games to 3 One game in the 1903 World Series. The National League began in 1876, evolving out of the National Association, which dated to 1871. Over the next … two leagues, including the raiding of players contracted to National League teams by the new circuit (the American …