Contributions by Illinoisans in the Foreign Service People born, raised, or educated in Illinois have made important contributions to America’s…
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, USAID made Central Asia a top priority—“no matter where you were posted and…
On October 9, 1983, while South Korean President Chun Doo-Hwan was on a visit to Rangoon, Burma to lay a…
Idi Amin Dada, who came to be known as the “Butcher of Uganda,” rose to officer rank in the Ugandan…
Sport has often been used throughout history as a political tool. In particular, sport boycotts have been effective measures for…
The Olympic Games represent the height of sporting diplomacy, with thousands of athletes transcending politics for two weeks as they…
Someone once described the dissolution of the USSR as a typical Soviet divorce — you’re no longer married but you’re…
The ongoing Eurozone crisis has taken on the dimensions of a long, repetitive Greek drama. After years of imposed austerity,…
In 1972, a group of Palestinian terrorists shocked the world by kidnapping eleven Israeli athletes during the Summer Olympics in…
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was, among other things, a horrible political miscalculation, lasting nine bloody years and resulting in the…