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… unrest that followed. To explain this food crisis to an audience in St. Louis in May 2008, then-President George W. … top of that came the failure of the rains and the peasants died en masse , so that entire villages were left … the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across …

… Vietnam analogy is not so much the difficulty of drawing comparisons between two different situations. The problem is … By the early 1970s, American involvement in Vietnam had become a strategic disaster. The war was sucking U.S. economic … the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and left the future course of U.S. diplomacy in doubt. And, like the …

… reliant on trust rather than the sword. But for this to become a reality, there must be an accumulation of goodwill. … a region full of suspicions and heavy armaments. A hostile future will await them. William Lambers is an author and …

… An estimate compiled by the nation’s intelligence services reaches the … Taiwan in 1958 ( left ). A 1958 poster showing Chinese soldiers invading Taiwan ( right ). The Taiwan Strait crises … had violated its NPT commitments. The World’s Nuclear Future These legacies remain relevant today, though for how …

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… resonated strongly in the 1980s, because they reminded audiences of the behavior of Ivan Boesky and other … investments broadly through risky buyouts of disparate companies. Often they stuffed their pockets with cash while … they attempt to design new legislation that will dissuade future Gordon Gekkos from acting in ways that can hurt …

… such power and influence? He will if he can set aside future political ambitions, work behind the scenes, and become an extension of his president. Ryan’s power will be …

… Daniel Walker Howe wrought? The answer is a sweeping and commanding synthesis of the political and economic history … the bases. It is also in the nature of such big overview studies that they often devolve, text-book like, into tedious … Whigs, the Whigs would win the larger contest: "America's future lay predominately with the Whig vision of economic …

… On one hand, huge new markets have opened to American companies; on the other, Chinese producers have created … developing their negotiation strategies. The Sino-African Future Since the China-Africa Summit of 2004, China has … can learn through China, it is how to imagine their own future, explore new possibilities, and engage with the rest …

… weapons. A breakthrough on this critical issue could come as part of an overall commitment toward deeper, verifiable nuclear arms cuts. Such … are grave reminders to Americans of September 11. But future attacks could be even more devastating if terrorists …