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The decision by referendum of the British electorate to depart the European Union — after a campaign in which facts…
Born to a modest family, Joseph-Desiré Mobutu prospered in the Force Publique, the army of the Belgian Congo. Mobutu became…
Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990 largely for economic reasons, but the contiguous Gulf countries had long-standing territorial conflicts…
In the 1960s, in the depths of the Cold War, the world was viewed in terms of a zero-sum game:…
The “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom has served to unite the two nations over the…
The neutron bomb, a low-yield thermonuclear weapon which would be especially lethal to enemy ground troops but would not seriously…
The Law of the Sea Treaty (formally known as the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,…
Sport has often been used throughout history as a political tool. In particular, sport boycotts have been effective measures for…
In 1945, towards the end of World War II, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps invaded Okinawa with 185,000 troops; a third of the…