The fall of the Soviet Union upset long-established power dynamics, leaving East and Central Europe, in particular, in uncharted waters.…
King Sobhuza II was proclaimed King of Swaziland at the age of four months and would rule for 83 years,…
Born in Philadelphia, Harold “Hal” Saunders graduated from Princeton and Yale before serving in the U.S. Air Force. After working…
The goal of public diplomacy (PD) is defined as supporting the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advancing…
The “Iron Curtain” was a term used to denote the efforts of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to block…
On October 9, 1983, while South Korean President Chun Doo-Hwan was on a visit to Rangoon, Burma to lay a…
On May 25, 1985, seventy-three South Korean students barged into the United States Information Services (USIS) library in Seoul and…
In August 1991, hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who opposed President Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms…
A crisis between India and Pakistan erupted between November 1986 and March 1987 after India launched the largest-ever military exercise…
Haiti has long been plagued by coups d’état and regime changes, leading to long-time political instability and weak governance. In…