In July 1983, tensions increased between Tamil minority separatists and the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka, erupting into civil war.…
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For Egypt and Syria, the 1967 Six-Day War was a bitter defeat at the hands of long-time foe Israel. They wanted to…
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When Armenia gained its independence after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, it was in dire straits. It was…
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During the Cold War, the United States and the USSR engaged in a zero-sum game throughout the globe; while mutually…
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U.S. relations with Moscow through the decades have been problematic at best while the embassy itself has been the subject…
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A Cold End to the Prague Spring
In 1968, growing opposition to the failing sociopolitical and economic policies of hard-line Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, led by Antonín…
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There was a lot of unfinished business on the Korean peninsula in the 1940’s. It had been ruled by the Empire…
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Chas Freeman was U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm and consulted frequently with General Norman Schwarzkopf and others…
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It was the first major foreign policy crisis for the U.S. since the end of the Cold War. Iraq, which…