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A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID

Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War

… to be disarmed.  In July 2008, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed  genocide charges against the … It may have lessened a bit, but according to Amnesty International, ongoing conflicts between Arab and non-Arab groups …
Glacial ice on Lake Baikal

Climate Change and Human Life

… in mind. One is an actual proposal that is before the International Commission on Stratigraphy, that is the group of … … Leticia R. Wiggins … Patrick R. Potyondy … Global/Transnational … Climate Change … Environment … Climate Change and …
Photo of a healthcare worker holding an elderly person's hand.

Ducking Out on Retiree Benefits

… largest companies headed off political solutions such as national health insurance and more progressive public pensions. Outflanked, liberals and unions eventually accepted the system of employer-provided …
2013 St. Patrick's Day parade in Wappingers Falls, New York.

The Wearing of the Rainbow

… found ways to weave ever more disparate groups into the national fabric. Surely we have a long way to go in pursuing …
Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, by Bruce Kuklick book cover.

Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger

Review of Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, by Bruce Kuklick (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006)
… failed to see the big picture, in that they did not see Soviet encroachments as a response to the possibility of … success to sound advice, rather than the fact that the Soviets had been bluffing. They misread the crisis as a … … United States … Cold War … Vietnam War … Diplomacy/International Relations … Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War …
Views of the White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece.

A Postcard from Thessaloniki, Greece

… Christians who would eventually be counted as “Greek.” This nationalist transformation occurred in 1912, when troops … three buildings that once served as mosques. However, Greek nationalists tore down the distinctive minarets that defined …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… Jordan River where holiness, pollution, hydropolitics, and national boundaries collide. Source of Holy Water and … has been extensively analyzed from the perspective of international relations, international law, politics, geography, history, hydrology, …

Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

… lamented dairy farmer Malcolm Adlington in 2009 to a National Geographic reporter. Not long ago, Anna Creek in … for birds whose migratory patterns tend not to respect national boundaries. Australia is the breeding ground for … and Management Program and the Wonga Wetlands offer an internationally renowned example of urban Australians trying to …
Hurricane Elena photographed from Space Shuttle Discovery, September 1, 1985

Rough Weather Ahead

Review of Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz (Princeton University Press, 2015)
… in the Mediterranean region over centuries across national and continental boundaries. Braudel conceived …
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China

The Greening of China?

… green technologies. Certainly, many of those have an international market. And so from an economic point of view, … your estimation, are the realistic possibilities for international cooperation on climate change issues in the future? … a real sense of willingness to participate in international accord. Perhaps the most recent example of that is …
PPI Drug Testing by Cambodia, PPI Network, CC BY 2.0, Flickr

Pro Sports Can Run, But They Can’t Hide

… Sports have received extensive government assistance at the national, state and local levels. It’s dishonest for … had threatened to kill him. If we discover that our national pastimes are filled with doped-up players, athletes …
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.

Work and Life after COVID-19

… is defined in part by the ease of movement across international borders. There are some who have abandoned Zoom to … is a new assertion of workers’ rights, even a revival of union organization. Having demonstrated their essential role … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …

Another Silent Spring

… who want to fix all the blame on a few. There are super-nationalists in the United States and China, for example, … the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea. A similar international dispersal was repeated in the horror of 1918 , when … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … Another Silent Spring …
The Great Wall of China: Perhaps the greatest collection of walls in human history.

Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?

… purpose, they stand today as a powerful symbol of Russian national identity. 6. Wall Street’s Wall Now synonymous with … Germans (and often families) into two different worlds. The Soviet, eastern side of Germany had a vested interest in … to the World … Jacob Beard … Top Ten Origins … Global/Transnational … Military/War/Peace … Migration, Immigration, & …