Limits of Chinese Friendship: China’s Development Loans to Venezuela
In 2004, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez agreed to form a “strategic partnership for common...
A nation must think before it acts.
Center for the Study of America and the West
Brexit, Europe, and the EU’s Passion Deficit
As of this writing, we enter the first full week of a new era in European and world politics,...
Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance
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The British Empire: A History and a Debate
Click Here to Purchase What was the course and consequence of the British Empire? The rights and wrongs, strengths...
Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures
Click Here to Purchase What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if...
Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice
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The Other 1815
June 17, 2015 Waterloo was but an episode in a maelstrom of conflict across much of the world in...
Kissinger’s World Order
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Merkel in Westminster
Angela Merkel makes for an unlikely cheerleader. Nevertheless, as the European Union’s senior head of government, and the leader...
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829–1877
This eagerly awaited sequel to Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585–1828 carries the saga of...