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Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… confrontation with Russia. Eschewing nationalism and  NATO , the April Armenian Revolution avoided the pitfalls … won a controversial victory. President Serzh Sargsyan at a NATO meeting in 2014 ( left ). A poster featuring Armenian …
Lockheed u 2c aircraft Image from Public domain images website

Brandishing Nukes–A Self-Defeating Policy

… concern about U.S. “warmongering” threatened a rift in the NATO alliance in the 1950s, just as it does today. Trying to … to dwindle. The strains between the United States and NATO allies will grow.Ý Another attack on our soil might …
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I

… who try to restore this great Russia and limit expansion of NATO and the European Union, pro-European slogans of Kyiv … of Independent States, which signed agreement with NATO. And in 1997, people now forgot about this. Ukraine had military exercises with NATO on Crimean Peninsula. So we have precedents, we have …
This Dutch UNPROFOR observation post in Srebrenica took heavy fire from Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.

Srebrenica and its Memory

In July 1995, in the final days of the Bosnian War, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
… they abandoned their observation posts or surrendered as NATO forces failed to provide meaningful backup. This Dutch … attacks on other “safe areas,” and continued violence, NATO intensified its first-ever use of force operations. …
The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989

What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan

… society was to be cast.” The Soviet modernist architect Anatole Kopp wrote that “new architecture is born not only of … legacy will be quite different. Since American and NATO intervention, the Kabul skyline has gradually become … is sure to be transformed once again since American and NATO intervention. (Photo by Robert Sanchez) The new …
An abandoned building in Chernobyl

A Postcard from Chernobyl

… to see again. Poster on Civil Defense in the event of a NATO nuclear attack on classroom wall (left, photo by Voicu …
A Church in Novgorod Russia

Russia and the World

… time, and to counteract Western encroachment in the form of NATO expansion, possible NATO expansion into Georgia. And that also, this five-day … to the United States. There really is no Russian version of NATO, although they have tried to make one called the CSTO. …
Soldiers in Kosovo

Kosovo: The Lessons of History?

… uses violence instead of diplomacy?” As American and NATO bombs fell upon Kosovo this spring, these were some of …
President George W. Bush in 2004.

When the Axis Was Truly Evil

… hostage crisis. His remarks have also puzzled many NATO allies, who have keen memories of the war against the …
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife before their assassinations in Sarajevo.

The Enduring Lesson of Sarajevo

… November ceremony in Lithuania marking the latest round of NATO expansion. The president should have added: “No more …
A photo of Helmut Kohl in1987.

Germany After Kohl

… However, by embedding Germany in the western alliance, NATO, and by working in partnership with Germany’s European …
The Dream of Worldwide Democratic and Social Republics – The Pact Between Nations, a print prepared by Frédéric Sorrieu, 1848.

Nationalism in Decline

… on Human Rights. Formal international associations — NATO, the European Union, the World Court, the United …

The Soviet Collapse

… the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to incorporate East European countries and even the … republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Russians saw NATO expansion as the enlargement of a hostile military … their border . And it was the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO that prompted Putin to intervene in eastern Ukraine and …
President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem

First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History

… States working through problems, specifically through NATO. Key initiatives have been couched in terms of NATO doing things together. At the same time, there's … the sin-eater Senate because they don't send republican senators in. If Hogan could become a leadership voice, which I …
Karzai with former US President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush at Camp David in 2007.

Keep Karzai in the Loop

… could keep the peace in Afghanistan on their own, yet NATO troops are readying to leave by 2014. That reality may …
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.

The Politics of Compassion

… Clinton's "politics of compassion" has come to mean NATO/bomber diplomacy in the complex Yugoslav civil war. …
Launching of the USS RALPH JOHNSON in Mississippi.

A New Cold War in the Caribbean?

… government has alienated Russia, which is unhappy about NATO expansion on its borders, not to mention the … At the height of the war in South Ossetia, the Illinois senator called for an end to the violence there but stopped …