The EU missed the turn to hard power largely because of a factor that is still shaping Europe to this day: the legacy of empire. For when, in 1954, it came time for the French parliament to ratify the ...

Discover the best museums in Mexico City, from pre-Hispanic collections to modernist and contemporary institutions shaping ...

Recall the image etched in memory: a bulldozer driven by fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State smashing through the ...

A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and ...

Most Americans might not think of New York State first in context of the American Revolution and independence – Boston, ...

Israel's recognition of Somaliland continues to reverberate across the Red Sea's fast-changing geopolitics. How to read the emerging regional map? Certainly not through the lens of colonial ...

This book throws the issues into a sharp focus, and the author rightly interrogates the welcome intervention of an ICC prosecutor: ‘We are witnessing a pandemic of inhumanity: to halt the spread, we ...

The international order built after World War II rests on one hard rule: states may not threaten or use force to take ...

THE global community’s limp response to America’s perversion of the rule of law in Venezuela has offered something far more ...

Gibson devotes a singular chapter, aptly titled Quill, to the period’s literature of slavery — contemporary published fiction ...

The question is no longer whether chieftaincy will change. History answers that unequivocally. The only open question is how? Every serious attempt at national modernization eventually collides with ...

PROFESSOR DASARATH CHETTY traces the unbroken line of American expansionism from 19th century land grabs through economic ...