There were many symbolic ends to the Cold War. The most obvious was when the Berlin Wall was opened and East and West Germany reunified.…
In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to…
When the cold war ended 25 years ago, Europe emerged as prosperous, democratic, united and peaceful. Today, however, it faces interlocking…
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 created unprecedented dangers. The crumbling empire had thousands of nuclear weapons, enough…
It is sometimes said that most Americans live in “the United States of Amnesia.” Less widely recognized is how many American policy makers…
For the first time in recent memory, large numbers of Americans are openly questioning their country’s grand strategy. An April 2016 Pew…
Not since Rome has one nation loomed so large above the others. In the words of The Economist, “the United States bestrides the globe like…