While a few Republican politicians have aligned with former President Donald Trump’s isolationist foreign policy position, most candidates continue to push for the traditional stance of engagement.
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The Cold War was an economic standoff as well as an atomic one. The author of a new book describes the minds behind the great ideological battles on that 20th-century front line.
It is not mere expansion, but the character of the expansion which will guide the five Brics countries on whether they admit new members.
Climate modelling in the 1980s offered the first glimpses of what might lie beyond a nuclear war.
Nuclear weapons production and testing contaminated many sites across the US and exposed people unknowingly to radiation and toxic materials. Some have gone uncompensated for decades.
Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
The sites provide a rare tangible record of the international solidarity that existed during the Cold War.
China has provided Russia with economic support during the war in Ukraine. But Beijing may be concerned over recent events in Moscow.
The Soviets controlled the media, set up camps for dissenters and installed politicians who would do their bidding in east Berlin and east Germany.
The allies determination to ‘save’ Berlin by flying planes in day after day in 1948, was a symbolic turning point.
If Russia moves nuclear warheads into Belarus the political fallout could be enormous.
Brazil and India are among the countries pointedly not taking sides over the war in Ukraine. But this is not the nonaligned movement of yesteryear.
Love him or hate him, you can’t ignore the importance of Henry Kissinger’s legacy in government and as a public intellectual.
As a displaced scholar, I never thought a show depicting events affecting modern Turkey would so strongly impact my interpretation of historical and political contexts intersecting with my family.
Will Joe Biden be able to maintain the balance that has so far allowed him to avoid serious Vietnam-like errors in Ukraine?
A scholar of Russia’s legal code explains the case against the Wall Street Journal reporter accused of espionage.
Marco Bellochio’s series is the latest interpretation of a murder that continues to haunt Italy.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is far from the first American journalist to be accused of spying, a media historian explains.
A historian looks at the steps leading up to Finland joining the Western strategic alliance – and what that means for small nations elsewhere.
There are fears that escalating US-Chinese tensions could threaten the independence of African and other nonaligned nations.
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