List of History articles
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Echeverría is shown surrounded by reporters holding microphones and video cameras up to him. Luis Echeverría Álvarez Was a Demagogue With Big Dreams
The former Mexican president aimed to transform global imbalances. But he’ll be best remembered for his repressive regime at home.
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A woman wearing a headscarf crouches in a prayer position with her palms raised between two gravestones. The Virulent Nationalism That Led to Srebrenica Is Back in Bosnia
And Russian President Vladimir Putin is eager to exploit it.
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A young Czech woman shouts at Soviet soldiers The West Needs a Cure for Cold War Fever
Yes, a new cold war is upon us. It’s time to stop talking about it and start trying to win it.
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gandhi-salt-march-senor-salme-illustration-site The Indian Anti-Colonial Movement Never Ended
It’s where we actually are in history.
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arms race-senor-salme-illustration-site The Art of the Arms Race
To avoid disaster, the United States must relearn crucial Cold War lessons.
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nonalignment-george-wylesol-illustration-site A New Cold War May Call for a Return to Nonalignment
Why a growing number of countries want to avoid getting stuck in a great-power tussle—again.
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back-to-the-future-history-senor-salme-illustration-site Does Putin’s War Mark a New Period in History?
It has been only two years since the start of another world crisis thought to mark a new era.
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new-iron-curtain-george-wylesol-illustration-site The Classic Cold War Conundrum Is Back
It is impossible to forget Russia’s violent and repressive actions in Ukraine, but it is necessary to deal with them to avoid escalation.
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United Nations troops fight in the streets of Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 20, 1950. Ukraine Is the Korean War Redux
Russia’s invasion heralds the transition to a new global order—but it will be less stable than the Cold War.
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gestures as he speaks during a press conference ahead of the NATO summit in Madrid at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on June 27. We Are Now in a Global Cold War
With NATO expanding its focus to China, new battle lines are being drawn.
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The United Nations Security Council gathers. Take Realist Arguments Over Russia in Good Faith
As Thucydides’s history shows, wielding power needs open debate.
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The Grohnde nuclear power plant Germany Confronts Its Nuclear Demons
Opposition to all things nuclear was the bedrock of the modern German political psyche. Then came Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Georgian soldiers What the Fall of Empires Tells Us About the Ukraine War
Russia’s war can only be understood as a bloody post-imperial conflict.
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Mobile artillery moves through Red Square Why Russia Keeps Turning to Mass Firepower
Russian artillery is an old tradition with brutal uses.
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An engraving depicts King Alfred the Great of England dividing his kingdom into counties and instituting tithes as a form of taxation. Is Brexit a Swamp Creature From 10,000 Years Ago?
Ian Morris’s latest pop history looks for the roots of British particularism.
