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… and has been inscribed as the foundation of today's international system of law and order. Yet, over the the past few … the current Balkan crisis, the breakup of the former Soviet Union, inter-ethnic and tribal violence in various parts of …

… both of Northern Ireland’s political communities: Unionists (almost exclusively Protestant, who favor the ongoing inclusion of Northern Ireland in the UK), and nationalists (almost exclusively Catholic, favoring a closer … the Nationalist (usually referred to as “Republican”) and Unionist (“Loyalist”) communities continued to use violence …

… Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union while also threatening the global economy. Before the … with Israel. These policies, along with failed international mediation, made peace impossible.  During the …

… smackdown ! Intra-party moneyfights ! Dueling State of the Union rebuttals ! The Rand Paul Drone Filibuster and John … one of the two major coalitions fails to hold the reins of national power? How likely is a serious third-party … Democratic Party, most of which had either seceded from the Union during the Civil War or opposed some portion of the …

… unprecedented spirit of voluntary unification. The European Union (EU) has been a grand experiment in breaking down the … lit up the sky and Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” (the EU anthem) rang through the ancient cobbled streets of Zagreb … has wrestled from its very beginnings with tensions between national sovereignty and greater integration. Greece’s …

… between the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress, though India is a multi-party … discussion about the rise of right-wing, religiously rooted nationalism in India. Since its creation in 1947 , India has … meant that the state of Jammu and Kashmir joined the union of India with the caveat that its residents were …

… yet the Cold War enemies, the United States and the Soviet Union, learned to build confidence and trust. A key step for … East … Cold War … Nuclear Power & Weapons … Diplomacy/International Relations … Global/Transnational … A Basis for Hope …

… I was a graduate student finishing my PhD when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.   Scott Levi   My name is Scott … some ways analogous to what the Americans and other international actors have pursued in Afghanistan since then. So …

… Beginning on November 20, 1945, the International Military Tribunal consisting of representatives … from the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union—the four major Allied powers—worked together to bring …

… war in 1868.” Three days later, Castro told the Cuban National Assembly that “no one should expect Cuba to … importance to the political and commercial interests of our Union,” John Adams pronounced in 1823. “It is scarcely … Cuban foreign policy, specifically expanding ties with the Soviet Union. Simply put: Americans were aghast. How utterly …

… marked by demonstrations and protests held by the United National Independence Party (UNIP). Each individual state’s … (1959) in what is now Malawi . He also worried that the Soviet Union and China would use independence struggles to gain …

… to some of the conditions of the Cold War that defined international politics between 1945 and 1991. Some have even … that characterized the initial years after the fall of the Soviet Union , it has become more assertive on its borders and less …

… quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the National Anthem to raise awareness of the Black Lives Matter … quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem to protest the oppression of black people …

… the contributions that various ethnicities, religions, and nationalities brought to the American scene. For others, the … the process of “Americanization”—the erasing of old national identities—became a priority. Politicians and other … US society still discriminated against immigrants based on nationality. This led to the Immigration Act of 1965 which …

… a former journalist and current member of the ultra-nationalist group the Proud Boys, planned a “Unite the … of Durham, NC published heroic profiles of Confederate and Union figures in 1889 to advertise their cigarettes ( left ) … specter of a centralized police state loomed large as the Soviet Union expanded across Europe. The logic behind …

… by an alien power. The memory of two failed attempts at national statehood in the 20th century (two different … of the country’s population and saw itself as “a union of five races” — Han, Manchu, Mongols, Tibetans, and … self-determination of different nations, all within a Soviet context. This model of managing ethnic and national …

… to tumultuous popular demonstrations. Politics and international sports seem to go hand-in-hand, but why? Join … Sullivan, who was the head of the American Amateur Athletic Union. And some of the American Olympic efforts early in the … So you look at those East German weightlifters and those Soviet swimmers and all that other kind of stuff, and that …

… these regional differences fostered two distinct senses of national identity. In the north, Ulster Protestants tended … staked their political future on the preservation of the Union. In political terms, they came to describe themselves as Unionists.  In much of the rest of Ireland, Roman …

… of Bannockburn, from the Scotichronicon, c. 1440     3. The Union of the Crowns: Two Crowns, One Head   In 1603, … will of Scottish nobles and landowners, paving the way for union with England and the creation of the United Kingdom.   … nuclear missiles   In 2007, the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) formed a minority government in the …