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… archive complex. A security guard gave me a glass of water and asked me to sit down. I, privileged civilian, was … I could see a dozen heavily-armed policemen shouting and running. It had been another "tiroteio"—a shootout—I was … are not altogether unprecedented. Brazil, the “giant of the South,” has had a long history of constitutional crises. …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… possible. From February 22 to 25, 1986, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue to protest President Ferdinand Marcos and his claim that he had won re-election over … the Marcoses in exchange for an anti-Communist bulwark in Southeast Asia. By the mid-1980s, however, foreign policy …

… 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’ …

… away, that parents are being separated from their children, and the termination of Temporary Protected Status for 57,000 … people fleeing? What is life like in their home countries? And what role does the U.S. play in creating the conditions … Talk, we zero in on Honduras, as hosts Brenna Miller  and  Jessica Viñas-Nelson speak with two experts, Professors …