The decision by referendum of the British electorate to depart the European Union — after a campaign in which facts…
The decision to close an embassy and order departure of diplomatic personnel is a signal of last resort that bilateral…
After the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan, despite its isolation and lack of development, was considered to be one of…
A mountainous country in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan was ceded by China and formally incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1876.…
As the Third Reich annexed the Sudetenland and Poland and the German war machine pushed through the Eastern Front towards…
In the 1960s, in the depths of the Cold War, the world was viewed in terms of a zero-sum game:…
How to commemorate an important anniversary of the country in which you’re posted when it marks a low point in…
Jesse Alexander Helms, a five-term Republican Senator (1973- 2003) from North Carolina, was known not only for his conservative beliefs…
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,…