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International recognition of South Ossetia would allow for increased economic, political and cultural contacts with the outside world and prevent the country from being integrated into Russia.
Only psychologists could discern how Dumiso Dabengwa maintained his legendary composure, a necessary trait for an intelligence supremo.
The first great power rivalry of the 21st century has begun – and it’s unlike any rivalry the world has ever seen.
President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy efforts may have been far more effective than critics have claimed.
When a country becomes more diverse,
new demographic tensions may emerge between people who feel that they own their country’s identity – and people who feel they’ve been left out.
The book, Marxism and Freedom was written in 1958. Yet, it remains relevant today.
In 2011 the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster struck Japan. Eight years later, Fukushima is perceived in very different ways by the West and by Japan.
Without its communist Soviet-style economy, North Korea would just be South Korea.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has new aspirations in Africa in pursuit of his country’s assertiveness in the global arena.
Once we understand genocide as something that can take awhile, with victims dying of starvation and disease rather than outright murder, we can recognize the genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
As South Africa became an international pariah, it began working in shady ways through even more shady operators, including getting arms from the Soviet Union and China.
Pik Botha defended apartheid and South Africa’s occupation of Namibia, but in the end helped end both.
The Russian Revolution – an event that affected more than Russia and was more than a revolution.
Students from former Soviet countries who study in the US or Europe are more likely to develop liberal political views.
During the Cold War, American evangelicals smuggled Bibles and other Christian literature to the Soviet Union and other communist countries. They still see Russia as a partner on evangelical values.
The Soviet programme of building war memorials in Eastern Bloc countries was a bid to win the hearts and minds of future generations.
Fields of sunflowers are now a common sight all over the world – but this has only been the case relatively recently.
Mandela did not make the decision to jettison Taiwan and recognise China. He adhered to a decision by the governing ANC.
The Russian ‘exclave’ ignored its Soviet past, remembered its German roots, but now looks east again.
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