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vol. 10, issue 11 - August, 2017 Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview	vol. 10, issue 7 - April, 2017 The Question of Refugees: Past and Present	vol. 10, issue 3 - December, 2016 The United States, China, and the Money Question
vol. 9, issue 12 - September, 2016 The Hajj and Europe	vol. 9, issue 7 - April, 2016 NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War	vol. 9, issue 4 - January, 2016 Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective
vol. 8, issue 12 - September, 2015 Singapore at Fifty	vol. 8, issue 11 - August, 2015 A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics	vol. 8, issue 9 - June, 2015 As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past
vol. 8, issue 8 - May, 2015 Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas	vol. 8, issue 5 - February, 2015 Erdoğan’s Presidential Dreams, Turkey’s Constitutional Politics	vol. 7, issue 1 - October, 2013 Viewpoint Iran: The Past and Present of the U.S.-Iran Standoff
vol. 6, issue 12 - September, 2013 European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?	vol. 6, issue 8 - May, 2013 A New World Order? Africa and China	vol. 6, issue 3 - December, 2012 "Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms
vol. 5, issue 11 - August, 2012 Russia and the Race for the Arctic	vol. 5, issue 9 - June, 2012 Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama	vol. 5, issue 7 - April, 2012 A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq
vol. 5, issue 4 - January, 2012 Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks	vol. 5, issue 1 - October, 2011 Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping	vol. 4, issue 12 - September, 2011 The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking
vol. 4, issue 11 - August, 2011 Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal	vol. 4, issue 10 - July, 2011 WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations	vol. 4, issue 8 - May, 2011 Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900
vol. 4, issue 5 - February, 2011 A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti	vol. 3, issue 10 - July, 2010 The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa	vol. 3, issue 8 - May, 2010 Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again
vol. 3, issue 7 - April, 2010 Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis	vol. 3, issue 6 - March, 2010 Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis	vol. 2, issue 11 - August, 2009 Becoming 'European:' The Diverging Paths of the Czech and Slovak Republics
vol. 2, issue 10 - July, 2009 Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order	vol. 1, issue 7 - April, 2008 Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya	vol. 1, issue 4 - January, 2008 The Politics of International Adoption

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June, 2016 Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin	April, 2016 Ukraine, In a Nutshell	March, 2016 A Long History of Close Shaves
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