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Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Ten Protests in Sports History

… 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to kneel for the national anthem during the 2016 season. That gesture, which … accusations of racism levelled by the OSU Black Student Union, campus boycotts, competing rallies for and against … awarded to a Communist nation. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union invested significant material and cultural …
President Joe Biden with other foreign leaders, sitting around a table with others looking on

How does Ideology Drive U.S. Foreign Relations?

… , Professor of History and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies at The Ohio State University.  An … public why, for instance, you know, containment of the Soviet Union in the late 1940s, meant that the US should be …
A Church in Novgorod Russia

Russia and the World

… of interference in foreign elections, the country's international activities suggest that its leadership is on a … interim director of Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Ohio.   Stephen … very long history, from the imperial era through the Soviet Union and today's post-Soviet society. What have Russia's …

After Putin? Russia's Presidential Elections

… Minister in charge of implementing so-called "projects of national priority" (such as housing and health) and the … to look at what occurred in the 1990s in the wake of the Soviet collapse and to recall the fact that the past seldom … abroad, whether in formerly Soviet space, the European Union, the U.S., or developing countries. The Presidential …
Auguste Chouteau—Founder of St. Louis and Head of the Chouteau family

Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America

Review of Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi, by Jacob F. Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019)
… By controlling the riverways, the original paths for international trade in Native America, the Illinois were able to …
cars on a highway

Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

… Brazilian government mandated a mixture of ethanol in the national fuel supply in the 1930s, and the success of the … military dictatorship to expand the industry and create the national program Proálcool in 1975. Private businessmen, politicians, and national and international automobile manufacturers together …

Becoming 'European:' The Diverging Paths of the Czech and Slovak Republics

… upon a pedestal draped in the blue and gold European Union (EU) flag, the undulating pendulum reminded observers … integration and prosperity. For the states of the former Soviet bloc in particular, the EU symbolizes full … respective attitudes toward membership in regional and international organizations and in their expectations of what it …
Celebrations for Jamaican Independence, 2012.

Jamaican Independence

… one triumph in the long history of Black sovereignty and nationalism that led to the disintegration of the British … consciousness also increased at this time due to union organizing and the spread of ideas from travel, … Bustamante founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and one of Jamaica’s two political parties, the …
Soviet and US Flags

Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War

… of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her work focuses on nationalism, migration, global history, and Cold War … developed out of the political confrontations between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War Two. And while …
General George Washington Resigning his Commission.

Diplomatic Advisers: Washington, Kennan, FDR

… with such entreaties, Washington knew, could harm America's national wellbeing. Specifically, he warned Americans to … Foreign Affairs published George Kennan's "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," which became the theoretical underpinning … of Containment. Kennan insisted that, toward the Soviet Union, the United States should apply "long-term, patient …
A group of children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

… Kobo , Amy Pate , and Amanda Robinson discuss ethnicity, nationality, and religion in contemporary African societies. … of West African States] which is an economic and political union in West Africa, are actually quite important in the … what was then the OAU and it's now just the AU, the African Union, there seemed to be fairly strong consensus of, among …
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen in 2012.

War Crimes: The “New Era” Looks Like the Old

… his prosecution as the dawning of “a new era of international accountability,” further evidence of “the … trial. Milosevic countered with a challenge to the International Criminal Tribunal’s legal legitimacy. Bubbling … is a fundamental clash between the competing claims of national sovereignty and universal human rights. If we have …
Cover of The British Way of War by Andrew Lambert

Redefining Strategy in 20th Century Britain

Review of The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021)
… The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy, Andrew Lambert, Professor of Naval … examines the debates surrounding the development of British national strategy at the turn of the 20th century through … the focal point around which the debate regarding British national strategy revolved from 1902 to 1922. Lambert …
The United Nations headquarters in Geneva.

Will We Turn the U.N. Charter into a “Scrap of Paper”?

… when it invaded Belgium. Because of such dismissal of international agreements, the esteem that Germany had enjoyed … in the United States, where there then was respect for international treaties, which the 1787 Constitution had elevated … to the United Nations remaining at the center of the international order.” As the move toward war on Iraq began in …
The flag of the United Nations

America’s Intervention Predicament

… intervene in humanitarian crises abroad, or whether a multinational force can be developed to do that job. Democratic … action through the Security Council. And except for the Soviet Union’s colossal slip-up in not vetoing U.N. entry into the …
L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples

Ideas of Race and Racism in History

… issues of race and racism remain as urgent as ever to our national conversation. Four scholars discuss such questions … Now there are times such as here in Ohio, it comes into the union, that we think we are on the right side of history. … When we not only have an explicit link of Jews with the Soviet state, but we also have this racial threat that we …

The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa

… Africa, to unite his country behind the success of the national team. Unexpectedly, the home squad provided just … diplomatic efforts, including consultation with the African Union and the Southern African Development Community. "This … who were the highlight. They stood and sang the national anthem, they made their vuvuzelas sing in unison -- …
Portrait of James Madison.

The Hidden Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform

… for their own ends. But Madison ignored the merits of national parties: the country’s greatest crisis, the Civil … limits the amount of money individuals, corporations, unions and other organizations can give to the national … as the National Rifle Association, the Sierra Club and unions) from advertising within 60 days of an election. The …
 Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten Book cover.

From Sea to Shining Sea

Review of Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
… in order to both understand and use that growth to promote nationalism, maps representing American history became the … the ideas that brought about a turn toward mapping history. Nationalism, manifest destiny, and modernization frame the … maps that explained the first one-hundred years of national history. Schulten shows in "Mapping the Present" …

Russia and the Race for the Arctic

… for warmth, a dozen Russian explorers had just raised their national colors, ceremoniously opening the first Russian … the Russian imagination. Polar explorers—especially the Soviet-era pioneers from the 1930s, who led the world in … achievements, honors, and global renown—and also the Soviet Union's Arctic pilots. For their record-breaking flights …
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Book Cover.

Hanoi Central

Review of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012
… Lien-Hang Nguyen's new book Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam is … web that includes North Vietnam, South Vietnam, China, the Soviet Union, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, France, and the …

A Century of Sanctions

… But not until the 20th century did modern concepts of international sanctions—a collective denial of economic access … cooperate in limiting the exports of strategic goods to the Soviet bloc in the ultimately unfulfilled hope of … combining the African diaspora, white liberals, and trade unions, sanctions seemed to offer a nonviolent way to force …