In April 2016, ADST gave its Cyrus R. Vance Award to Dr. Joseph Nye. Named in honor of one of…
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Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited India October 28, 1974 to discuss its nonalignment policy, which aimed at preserving India’s…
Thomas Boyatt was on his way to Cyprus to resume his post as political officer on August 29, 1969 when…
Cyprus gained independence from the United Kingdom on August 16, 1960, but the agreements that led to sovereignty failed to…
The break-up of Yugoslavia caused some of the most heinous human rights violations and ethnic mass killings seen in the…
At the height of the Cold War, with the death toll mounting in Vietnam and the split between the USSR…