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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.
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 …
Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback in front of the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia on June 3, 1907, reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade.

Trent Lott and the Collapse of Southern Mythology

… ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout from Trent Lott’s tribute to … limited government to boast of how he had brought national largesse to Mississippi. In doing so, he …
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 …

WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations

… Assange and Manning as unambiguous enemies of the international community. Internal dissent—voiced notably by (now … patient but firm and vigilant" stance toward the Soviet Union after World War II, aimed explicitly at halting … Global/Transnational … Diplomacy/International Relations …
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 …
Photo of the World Trade Towers after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.

The End of a “Safe America”

… Japanese would attack the West Coast in 1942 and that the Soviets would hit us with nuclear missiles during the Cold … represent freedom”) that often spring to our lips in international crises, including this one. Hatred that can … belligerent nation. It is time that we encouraged real international mediation in that crisis. Yes, we should remain a …