James A. Baker served as the Secretary of State during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1992,…
Two decades of ethnic tension and a civil war in 1990 laid the groundwork for one of the most savage…
On August 30, 1983, a Boeing 747, Korean Airlines 007 took off for Seoul from New York’s John F. Kennedy…
The unusually strong response to Stephanie Kinney’s piece on the lack of core values within the Foreign Service — by far…
“With Ukraine, Russia is an empire. Without it, Russia is just another country.” The history between these two is long…
The Transnistria region in Moldova is a Cold War relic. Along with Nagorno-Karabakh in Armenian-controlled Azerbaijan and South Ossetia in Georgia, it is…
Pakistan after independence was a strange creation: the capital, Islamabad, and most of the power were located in the west…
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) marked a turning point in relations between the U.S. and the USSR. Signed in December 1987 by President Ronald…
On December 21, 1988, Pan American flight 103 flying from London Heathrow to JFK Airport in New York exploded over…
It sounds like something out of a novel: a group of rebels, helped by an American, seize an embassy in…