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… is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … and tensions between private corporations and government officials, and between Europeans and Aboriginal peoples. … water supply in Sydney, the Tank Stream, quickly became a site of contention—and disastrously polluted—as local elites …

… spy. Since then, as this list shows, espionage became more complex and increasingly valuable. The times change, but … capacity of Her Majesty’s original secret service, working officially as Secretary of State and adviser to Queen … at the onset of World War II . It quickly became the site for the British Code and Cypher School, headquarters …

… Prologued … James Bradford The United States essentially becomes one of the major contributors to Afghanistan's … Cold War weren’t always so peaceful. In the fight against communism, American policymakers and their allies viewed … of the Global War on Drugs. Alexander Aviña But Mexican officials are also really clever in how to to use what they …

… on September 25, 2018 at the UN Headquarters in New York [Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian]. United … U.S. soldiers just as they were returning from overseas combat ( left ). The opening session of the League of … mediated disputes throughout Europe and Asia, among other accomplishments. The League’s original charter also included …

… State pushes for multilateral diplomacy. When retired officials elbow their way into such a conflict, only more … as the voice of prudence, the realpolitik strategic thinker compelled to inform the naive, idealistic newcomers from the South about national interests and …

… offered from the North and would keep South Vietnamese officials updated on major developments.   While promising … shown the agreement, he felt presented with a fait accompli and refused to consent.   Believing that he had been …

… to occupy the Suez Canal zone. Nasser, who did not become Egypt’s official head of state until 1956, came to power in 1952 as … shots are heard, but Nasser hardly pauses, and his speech becomes ever more impassioned: “O free men, let them kill me …

… to Mark Twain, “it often rhymes.” Indeed, few historical comparisons make more compelling verse than the COVID-19 outbreak and history’s … This was caused in no small part by the deaths of many officials at all levels of government. Undoubtedly the Black …

… Tibet. They demand that President Clinton act forcefully to compel China to change its policies toward Tibet. This … and win popular approval for the Clinton administration. Official U.S. policy has always been that Tibet is not … done. Clinton will seem like an activist president without committing himself to very much. And the Tibetans? In …

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … west of Istanbul. The canal would bypass the Bosporus , the site of multiple shipping accidents, and link the Black Sea … pro-Islamic party, of plotting to move Turkey away from its official secular ideology toward a more Islamic path. He …

… charged with attempting to assassinate high-ranking Soviet officials, and a power struggle among members of Stalin’s … pardoned or remitted the sentences of prisoners whom had committed minor offenses. As they worked to dismantle … narrow” for the United States and the Soviet Union to come out on the other side with a better relationship, …

… city for Mount Vernon on September 10, 1793. He later visited the city before the official all clear on November 14, but did not reoccupy the … other business carried out virtually over Zoom. The theater company, Gemini CollisionWorks, gathers most of its 22 …

… which has targeted Christians, Muslims, Nigerian government officials, and English-language schools. The consensus among many academics, journalists, and commentators is that Boko Haram is an Islamist organization … from Mali, North Africa, Egypt, and the Saharan oases visited the region of West and Central Africa known as …