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Pancho Villa and followers.

Mexico’s Great Transition

… for seven decades. The transition of power to the National Action Party (PAN) is taking place peacefully and …
Dr. Aleš Hrdlička

“No law can change our blood"

Review of Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy, by Katherine Ellinghaus Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
From left to right, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2001.

Attorneys General Who Cry Wolf

… a fierce rhetorical whipping. Newspapers declared him a “national menace,” “full of hot air.” He had warned once too …
Members of the Free Officers welcomed by crowds in Cairo in January 1953.

The Egyptian Middle Class Is Disgruntled. Again.

… of state employees to balloon. In the next few years Nasser nationalized all major branches of the economy. A classic … ensue. Guy Laron is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. …
Iraq by Raymond Bucko SJ on Flickr, cc by 2.0

Redeeming Honor — the South and Iraq

… resources to put matters right, we resemble the undermanned Union peacekeepers in the Reconstruction South. By Middle … B. Hayes, caved in to Southern demands for removal of all Union forces from the former Confederacy. That withdrawal … Global/Transnational …
The Cornalvo Dam, near the city of Mérida in Spain.

Top Ten Origins: Dams

… on salmon populations. Between 2012 and 2014 the U.S. National Park Service decommissioned two dams on the Elwha … the Rampart dam’s reservoir now belongs to the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Sanctuary, established by President Jimmy … After almost two decades of political tension, British and Soviet Engineers completed the Aswan High Dam in 1970. It …
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47

Baseball Without Borders

Review of Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League, by Cesar Brioso (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015).
… how 1947, the year marking racial integration in the National League, was a critical year in the history of Cuban … important role played by Cuba in integrating the American National League.  However, beyond his brief exploration of …
Shells of burnt-out busses after a suicide bombing

The Terrors of Suicide Bombing

… Jeffrey Lewis . I'm a lecturer in the undergraduate International Studies Program here at Ohio State University. I'm … situation. On the first day of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. There are over 100 instances of Soviet … Global/Transnational …
Painted poster of Saddam Hussein riddled with bullet holes in 2003.

Hybrid Justice for Hussein

… should Saddam answer to — a domestic Iraqi court or an international tribunal? Washington wants to avoid creating … declined to ratify the 1998 Rome Statute creating the International Criminal Court, the United States does not want now … precedent for a domestic leader to be tried by an international institution. It fears that efforts to establish an …
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife before their assassinations in Sarajevo.

The Enduring Lesson of Sarajevo

… In the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo in 1914, Serb nationalists assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne. … of Iraq. In seeking to contain one threat to international stability, we must take care, as those of the World … International Organizations … Diplomacy/International Relations …