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Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"

Review of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
… shaped by the Soviet Union’s ethnic patchwork. The watershed event was the three-day coup in August 1991. …
Cover image of ibook - ruins in the Middle East

Middle Eastern Politics & Culture: Today & Yesterday

… the book also examines both the tense and essential role of water resources in the region and the core importance of … 1 2 15 28 40 51 63 75 88 101 112 115 116 117 120 Chapter 2: Water and the Middle East Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring … to Washington in November 2015, he arrived amidst a low-water mark in U.S.-Israeli relations. He also left a country …
Mexican flag in a square

A Postcard from Mexico City

… Originally red, it was dedicated to the goddess of water and fertility. The Pyramid of the Sun stands at about …
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)
… have become mainstays in political reportage. From Watergate to "nannygate," Iran-Contra to Monica Lewinsky, Halliburton to Whitewater and cocaine busts and teenage drinking, political …

The Fate of the Kurds

… than state officials had bargained for. A 19th century watercolor painting of Bedir Khan Beg, Chief of Jezirah. Mir …
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920

The October Revolution in Russia

… Canal (from the 1932 documentary film Baltic to White Sea Water Way , Central Russian Film and Photo Archive) ( right …
Image of Adonis on a red-figure squat lekythos.

Easter: A Season of Renewal

… river Euphrates, believed that Tammuz, their god of “deep waters,” and his wife, their goddess Ishtar, or “Mother …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… on China for not only security, but also for food and for water. So Hong Kong was getting water from China, even in the years right before and in the Cultural Revolution. It was a source of fresh water. It was a source of meat, source of vegetables. It was …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… will simulate the effects of climate change on future water availability in the Arequipa region.  Five hours … were estates that generally held the most fertile and best-watered farmland. They also boasted the finest agricultural …
From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.

Top Ten Origins: Climate Change

… John Tyndall proved experimentally that carbon dioxide and water vapor trapped heat by letting in shortwave radiation … and Kiribati (in the Pacific) may simply disappear under water, leaving their populations refugees. … Sam White … Top …
A black and white photo of Barry Goldwater in 1962.

Rick Perry, Social Security, and the Ghost of Barry Goldwater

… campaign may be haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Barry Goldwater.   In 1964, early in his presidential campaign, Goldwater criticized Social Security but later backed away from … an opening for his Republican challengers. Like Goldwater, Perry retreated from his initial attack on Social …
Thomas Sankara

Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso

… 25 grocery stores 553 apartment buildings and lodgings 258 water reservoirs and 962 wells and boreholes. According to World Bank figures, the volume of stockpiled water went from 8.7 million tonnes in 1983 To 302.4 million … of all societies. Sankara said since 4 August 1983 water, trees, and lives if not survival itself, have been …
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.

On the Armenian Genocide

… version, which has been very successful in muddying the waters and in convincing many non-Armenians that the facts …