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A Postcard from the Ural Mountains

… lease on life with the massive evacuation of industry from Ukraine and the Donbass during the Second World War . The …

The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power

… at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania (1979); Chernobyl, Ukraine (1986); and Fukushima, Japan (2011) disrupted … others lost lives. Radiation spread through the regions of Ukraine and Belarus , near the plant, and then far beyond, …

Clash in the Caucasus: Georgia, Russia, and the Fate of South Ossetia

… uncertainty within NATO about its commitment to Georgia and Ukraine; the E.U.'s reluctance to jeopardize the steady … have their own "frozen conflicts" to deal with; and for Ukraine and Kazakhstan, which are seeking closer ties to the …

The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

A European Future for NATO?

France at the Barricades, 1934

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

Signal Soldiers train to protect against Nuclear Biological and Chemical threats.

The Nuclear Theft From the Poor and Hungry

… weapons and material in former Soviet states such as Ukraine and Belarus. It was critical that these weapons not …

Pirates of Puntland, Somalia

Picturing Black History

… Sunday. And we have news photographers on the ground in Ukraine. So we really are everywhere. But today I want to …

Administrative building in the Hague in 1939.

First World War of the Twenty-First Century?

… the United States prepared to do to prevent Azerbaijan or Ukraine from falling under Russian hegemony? There are no …

Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order

… felt abandoned by Moscow and the "Slav republics" (Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus). It was a generally unwanted …

Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?

Review of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State, by Mark Lawrence Schrad (New York: Oxford UP, 2014)

A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942

Operation Barbarossa

… vast Army Groups. Their targets were Leningrad, Moscow, and Ukraine , respectively. At 3:15 am, German artillery began …

The Berlin Airlift

… and cost millions of dollars. In places like Gaza and Ukraine in 2023-2024, the West faces comparatively more …

A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

… the well-documented synagogue in Gwoździec (now modern day Ukraine ). It was originally built c. 1650, then renovated …

The Hajj and Europe

… And in a new twist last year, after annexing Crimea from Ukraine , Russia offered Crimean Tatars generous hajj …

Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland.

Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip

Review of Nikita Khrushchev's Journey into America, by Lawrence J. Nelson and Matthew G. Schoenbachler (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2019)

An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.

The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War

… its external trade. Meanwhile, Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine reignited the close diplomatic relationship between … ballistic missiles for its illegal war of aggression in Ukraine. The cash-strapped North Koreans are all too willing …