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"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms

… arms trader in the world, was convicted in a New York court and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Bout, a … in operations to deliver weapons to various combatants in Africa. By his own admission, he had flown weapons to … of traffic, another route flowed from the Persian Gulf into South and Central Asia beginning in the second half of the …
President Lyndon B. Johnson visiting American troops in Vietnam in 1966.

The Ambiguities of “Cut and Run”

… Karl Rove’s recent “cut and run” accusations against the Bush administration’s … September 1950, three months after the initial invasion of South Korea, had he accepted the status quo ante bellum … entered the war and almost drove the UN forces off the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. Had Truman been …
Refugees crowded emergency trains leaving to India or Pakistan c. 1947-1953

India-Pakistan Partition

… Map of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. This year marks the 70 th anniversary … a wave of decolonization that spread across Asia and Africa. Yet alongside the victories of independence came the … of violence that shaped the origins of both nations, the South Asian subcontinent remains marked by that fateful …

Hong Kong in Protest

… sides of the battle between the Hong Kong Police Force and the criminal Triads. For the movie’s two leads, living … Hong Kong sits at the mouth of the Pearl River estuary in southern China, made up of the Kowloon Peninsula and more … ; North Korea ; The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom ; China and Africa ; Japanese Nuclear Power ; Hiroshima ; Taiwan’s …
Rep Joe WIlson fan club with a poster that reads, "You lie!"

Brooks to Thurmond to Wilson

… nation expressed shock at Republican Congressman Joe Wilson and his “You lie!” outburst at President Obama, South Carolinians doubtless recognized it for what it was: … busy defending segregation and opposing civil rights for African Americans, segregation’s great champion found time …
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)
… the Florida State University campus, taking down trees and utility lines before making landfall near Biloxi, … exploration, trade, warfare, and colonization, including Africa, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of … South & Central America …
 A Chinese laboratory technician conducting tests on SARS.

Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)

… As the world grapples with the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 , it is important to remember that this … pneumonia was reported in the Guangdong province of southern China. According to the World Health Organization … spread to 26 countries across four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia) over the following eight …
Review of Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) Book Cover

Ho Chi Minh: A Biography

Review of Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
… eye of a political storm that toppled French colonialism in Southeast Asia, exposing the shallow logic of the Cold War, and rallying anti-colonial views throughout the global South, Ho Chi Minh remains one of the most important figures … East Asia & Southeast Asia …
Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war

The Bangladesh Liberation War

… Liberation War, a short-lived conflict between India and Pakistan that established the People’s Republic of … the war is best remembered for its dramatic alteration of South Asia’s geopolitical landscape, it also bears a more … from the British empire in 1947 . At that time, the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned into two countries: …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… that would enable extradition from the city to mainland China. Over the ensuing months, heavy-handed tactics by the police only swelled the movement, which … a million residents of Hong Kong. The demonstrators' demands have also expanded to encompass an investigation into …
Taiwanese flags on display for National Day, 2018.

The Taiwan Strait Conflict

… Republic of China’s (PRC) regularly projects its economic and technological power via a military show of force for its territorial claims in the South China Sea and the West Pacific—especially  Taiwan … the CCP/PRC. Shortly after  North Korea ’s invasion of the South, Truman ordered the Seventh Fleet to the Taiwan Strait …

The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History

… global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics in 1904, and professional play in Japan began in the 1920s. Nowadays, … return to television in the United States was the KBO from South Korea . Dominican young men play for their local … which arrived in 1972 after a court case brought by African American player Curt Flood made it all the way to …
Evo Morales in 2006.

Once More, Bolivians Seek Independence

… Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada, from office. This small, poor South American country is hardly familiar to most Americans, … failing because Bolivians are trapped in a colonial past — and not just in the sense that the United States dominates … elsewhere, while Bolivia remained the poorest country in South America. Many Bolivians don’t trust their politicians …
President Kennedy surrounded by cameramen after signing the Cuba Quarantine Order on October 23, 1962.

How Bush Might Have Profited from Kennedy’s Example

… leadership than comparison of John F. Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban missile crisis with George W. Bush’s … in Cuba before deploying troops to American ships and to southeastern states. To avoid creating a public panic, he … discussions of evacuation or distribution of food to the Southeast, which was most vulnerable to attack. Knowing that …
Launching of the USS RALPH JOHNSON in Mississippi.

A New Cold War in the Caribbean?

… This last week, "Go ahead and squeal," he taunted us. The cause of his outburst? … U.S. ally, Georgia, over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia. When the United States sent warships to the … Obama has been less bellicose. At the height of the war in South Ossetia, the Illinois senator called for an end to the …
Depiction of General Scott capturing Mexico City during the Mexican-American War.

Getting Away from the “Quagmire” Cliché

… to question Pentagon statements, presidential promises and the need of armed intervention overseas. Understandably, … from Operation Iraqi Freedom. It pitted Americans and South Vietnamese against the Soviet-supported North … a real God,” whereas Muslims worship “an idol.” Influential Southern Baptists like Albert Mohler have even called on …
The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.

The University of Algiers Library Bombing

… The ceiling of the main university building was gone, and its interior had suffered substantially from the fire.  … an essential part of the cultural heritage of  Algeria , Africa, and the Mediterranean World.  While these estimates … U.S.-based Ford Foundation and the Vatican as well as North African and Middle Eastern governments including Egypt, …
Jair Bolsonaro speaking at microphone

Brazil, Bolsonaro, and the Politics of Nostalgia

… History Talk podcast, your new hosts Eric Michael Rhodes and Lauren Henry speak with two experts — Jennifer Eaglin and Pedro Cantisano — about the rise of Bolsonaro, his place … , Top Ten Origins: Brazil's Presidential Elections , and South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 …
Flag of the Republic of Venezuela (1930-2006)

An End to Interventionism in Venezuela

… of the Bush administration’s catastrophic policy in that South American country. The U.S. channeling of millions of … of President Hugo Chavez’s regime, is hugely destabilizing and will foster great acrimony and distrust between the two … on Latin America (NACLA) and the author of "Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left" (2008). …