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Mao Zedong clapping and Mao Zedong speaking at a microphone

The Founding of the People's Republic of China

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China marking the end of China’s chaotic era of foreign domination since the mid-18th century.
… Harvard University Press, 2011. Wang, Zheng.  Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics … Diplomacy/International Relations … International Organizations …
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks book cover.

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

Review of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)
… ideas about corporate responsibility, civic involvement, nationalism, bureaucracy, and tradition. Dirks organizes …
Secretary of State John Kerry continued his meetings in Lausanne with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Under Secretary Wendy Sherman and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz are participating in the meetings.

Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy

… Over the course of the past year international negotiators have met periodically in Vienna in an … weapons, and thereby mitigate one of the most pressing international security concerns of the past several decades. In … This view accordingly deems Iran a serious threat to international security even without a nuclear weapon and a …
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… have gravitated, unfortunately, to the far right, to the national front. So that is one of the unhappy developments … precisely, part of the appeal of the far right is that the National Front movement of Jean-Marie Le Pen, and now it is …
The "Bridge of No Return" that crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea

… and Japan defused their fear and earned decades of international good will. The cost of humanitarian aid to North … Diplomacy/International Relations …
illustration of Prince George IV

Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?

Review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher (New Haven: Yale, 2019)
… time, protection from venereal infection became a matter of national security. The use of condoms, while not valorous, …
The Trials of Laura Fair by Carole Haber Book Cover.

A Woman Scorned?

Review of The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West, by Carole Haber (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
Pledging his support, President George W. Bush talks via telephone to New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists

… War has an American president thought through what the international role of the United States should be. A continuance … Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists …
President Ronald Reagan sitting in the Oval Office Study in 1985.

Misremembering Reagan

… produced huge federal budget deficits and increased the national debt from $700 billion to $3 trillion. The current …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… According to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , people in late antiquity … medical understanding. The 1990 ACT-UP protest at the National Institutes of Health sought to bring awareness to … Global/Transnational
Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… went far beyond the break-in and bugging at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An …

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

… from the Garden of Eden. The 14th century C.E. myth of national origins connected Ethiopia’s rulers to the Old … He then began plans for the Grand Renaissance Dam. International water law has not resolved differences about … Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. A proposal for “equitable shares” was …
First Lady Michelle Obama reading a Dr. Seuss book to children at the White House.

Celebrating the “Seussentennial”

… values. During World War II, well before Dr. Seuss became a national icon, Geisel was producing editorial cartoons for … while “The Cat in the Hat,” the book that won Geisel international fame, challenges the conformist tendencies of …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… Under British rule Hong Kong becomes a link in an international trade. It's an entrepôt. It becomes a manufacturing … especially after the war. It becomes the center of international banking. And all of these economic systems require … to earlier, was 2003, in which people came out to protest national security legislation. In 2012, there was a protest …

当前委内瑞拉危机的历史根源

… SA )的监管都有所减少。如今腐败已经 达到前所未有的水平 。 透明国际(Transparency International)发布的 1995 年至 2015 年委内瑞拉腐败感知指数(Corruption Perceptions … SA )的监管都有所减少。如今腐败已经 达到前所未有的水平 。 透明国际(Transparency International)发布的 1995 年至 2015 年委内瑞拉腐败感知指数(Corruption Perceptions … SA )的监管都有所减少。如今腐败已经 达到前所未有的水平 。 透明国际(Transparency International)发布的 1995 年至 2015 年委内瑞拉腐败感知指数(Corruption Perceptions …