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November 4, 2018 •
Beat Blogs, Davila: Geopolitical Jabber •
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Part 2 of a series: Geopolitical Jabber By Jose Davila IV merican support for the House of Saud, the ruling family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, stretches all the way back to a meeting between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abdul...
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February 8, 2015 •
The World at Yale •
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By Christina Bartzokis As the conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate, some analysts have compared U.S.-Russian relations to the tension of the Cold War. Russian Ambassador to the U.S., Sergey I. Kislyak, disagrees: he believes that...
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May 1, 2014 •
Blogs, Online Content, The Globalist Notebook •
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By David Shimer Because the vast majority of Crimean citizens who voted in the March 16 referendum wanted to join the Russian Federation, Moscow quickly annexed the region. It is ironic that the Russians are now proponents of democracy,...
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March 29, 2014 •
Blogs, Online Content, The Globalist Notebook •
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BY CAROLINE WRAY: 23 years have passed since the Soviet Union was toppled and the end of the Cold War seemed to finally have come. The West celebrated and breathed a sigh of relief as Eastern Europe spent years adjusting to non-Soviet rule...
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October 12, 2013 •
Blogs, Online Content, The Globalist Notebook •
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BY PAUL ELISH: For this week’s post, I have been thinking extensively about two issues of historical memory in the Americas that I’m inclined to believe are connected. Recently in El Salvador, a succession of headlines have captured...
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