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… 2017 marked the 70th anniversary of two nations, India and Pakistan. Their independence from the British Empire in … prompted a wave of decolonization that spread across Asia and Africa. Yet alongside the victories of independence came the … South Asia …

… American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the imposing 18th-century … one side by an enormous cathedral. Catholicism blended with African spirituality and the practice of Santeria that arrived in Cuba with the African slave population and became widespread on the …

… an anti-American populist, called on Latin America to stand-up to what he sees as imperial U.S. policy towards the … nations, eastern Europe, most of Asia, and even parts of Africa. Politicians have been able to capitalize on this … emigration rates to the U.S. in comparison to countries in South America. The increasing salience of immigration policy …

… us of the dangers involved in allowing scientific knowledge and national security to justify what the New York Times  … prisoners, soldiers, prostitutes, psychiatric patients, and children—were enrolled without consent in unethical … more well-known) Tuskegee experiments in which hundreds of African Americans with syphilis were studied without being …

… Point Agreement of the Central People’s Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the … claims of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over Tibet and retroactively justified the previous year’s military … Dalai Lama and his supporters had sought refuge in Dromo, south Tibet. According to the Dalai Lama’s autobiography, …

… crowds marched through the streets of China's cities, demanding an end to official corruption and more political freedom. Inspired by the spectacle of … behaves outrageously, the United States, Russia, Japan and South Korea appeal to the Chinese Communists for help, …

… censorship policies, continuous attempts to enrich uranium, and 2009 elections resulting in mass protests, arrests, and even the murder of several protesters. This current … of the word "Persian," which comes from Fars province in southwestern Iran, home to Iran's most ancient …

… Hamid Karzai threw his support behind an astonishing and repressive law that would make it illegal for women of … and collect nervous reports of Taliban activities in the south. With few exceptions, what we did not see were women … The Pashtun are the dominant population in the eastern and southeastern portions of Afghanistan and the western …

… focused substantial efforts to improve  agricultural output and efficiency, especially for small farmers who have … for generations under the Peruvian systems of exploitative land distribution. In the fall of 2021, then President Pedro … sought to boost food production in nations of the Global South with the goal not only of increasing prosperity but …

… terrorist incidents failed to punish the terrorists and certainly did not protect the United States. The United States has concluded that Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, al-Qaida, are responsible for the … personnel from North Vietnam to the communist insurgents in South Vietnam. American efforts to cut the trail were …

… film Captain Phillips (2013), directed by Paul Greengrass and based upon the 2011 memoir by Richard Phillips, tells … events of 2009—the hijacking of an American cargo ship and the dramatic rescue of its heroic captain. The larger … self-righteous, his ship loaded with food aid for hungry Africans, Phillips instructs his 20-man crew that if boarded …

… narcotic drug deep into China ’s politics, public health, and economics but also cemented the country’s status as both a prize and a battleground for Euro-American imperialist powers. The … it scrambling to access that nation’s porcelains, silks, and luxury goods but unable to sell in return the goods …

… On March 12, 2011, an explosion rocked the towns of Futaba and Okuma in Fukushima, Japan, but few were there to hear … the United States test detonated a hydrogen bomb in the south Pacific, the fallout from which coated a Japanese … and mutated by American hydrogen bomb tests in the South Pacific. Bill Tsutsui, renowned scholar of all things …

… tallest mountain ranges, the Himalayan, the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram. While Gilgit-Baltistan has been a part of … , the region is not a province nor a self-administered unit and has lacked representational power in the federal … the percentage of children not in school, and the first in South Asia . Rural girls in the country receive an average …

… will have a missile that can reach the United States and when it does a Second Cold War will begin. The failed … prospect of U.S. nuclear retaliation. They may be suicidal and willing to make "martyrs" not only of themselves but of … Whether the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, accused by South Korea in the 1980s of ordering the bombing of two …

… the Philippines provides a clear object lesson in how to handle the Iraqi situation. And that lesson is to do what so many people now urge: stop … because of their suffering under Saddam, the Shiite south and Kurdish north, are treacherous. Just as was the … East Asia & Southeast Asia …

… the Philippines provides a clear object lesson in how to handle the Iraqi situation. And that lesson is to do what so many people now urge: stop … because of their suffering under Saddam, the Shiite south and Kurdish north, are treacherous. Just as was the … East Asia & Southeast Asia …

… of Ethiopian refugees suffering from a devastating famine and a vicious civil war. She expressed her frustration with … the futility of using medicine to treat starving patients and then called for increased international food aid for the … of food aid through the Ethiopian government in the south instead of trying to reach the famine ravaged …

… Cuban Missile Crisis. Comparing President Kennedy’s action and President Bush’s intentions, Secretary of Defense Donald … had conclusive evidence concerning the Russian missiles, and he resisted the advice of the military to use force. … a Shiite majority, a Sunni “Marsh Arab” minority in the south, and a Kurdish minority in the north, not to mention a …

… the historic rivalry between the Almendares Scorpions and the Habana Lions.  Yet intertwined within this tale of … League sneakily poaching players from other franchises, and the Brooklyn Dodgers, utilizing their spring training … leagues were racially integrated, Robinson and other African-Americans would be able to play in freedom (29). …

… of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1950s and the Chicago Bulls basketball squad in the 1990s. … learn to perform extraordinary athletic feats on sandlots, grassy fields and beaches. The entire nation seems … team? Will the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea become a safer place if the Korean peoples’ …