More: History
From the Ranch to Hollywood: The origins and cultural development of the cowboy in the U.S.
The term cowboy was used for the first time back in the 18th century. Since that time, it has developed in different regions in...
Lessons from Dr Strangelove: How To Avoid Nuclear War
How close are we to a second Cuban Missile Crisis? Sixty years after a 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union,...
Looking back at India’s only military debacle, 60 years after
20 October 2022 marks sixty years since the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China launched a surprise attack on India, leading to a month-long...
An Ideology of Power, National Interest, and the State: Realism and Power in International Relations
Realism is nothing more than the ideology of powerful states.
In Dunne and Schmidt’s chapter on realism for the International Relations (IR) textbook The Globalization...
Mikhail Gorbachev: A Game that Wasn’t Saved and Had No Cheat Codes
Mikhail Gorbachev’s death caused a surge of debates on his political heritage. As expected, opinions were split. Negative comments focused on the Soviet Union’s...
Revolutionary Russia and the Formation of Political Consciousness in Modern Kerala
20th century marks an important epoch in the history of mankind. The century saw multiple revolutions, two devastating world wars, economic depression and economic...
The latest Kissinger: Leadership and the eavesdropping on history
In the first lines of the introduction to his most recent book, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, which was released this summer in...
New archaeology dives into the mysterious demise of the Neanderthals
BY SARAH WILD
For more than 350 000 years, Neanderthals inhabited Europe and Asia until, in a sudden change by evolutionary standards, they disappeared around...
Anatomy of right-wing populism
Twenty-five years ago, Fareed Zakaria introduced the concept of illiberal democracy: he revealed how some legitimately elected governments undermine liberal democratic principles by eroding...
Israel’s Annexation of East Jerusalem
The Israel-Palestine conflict began with the inception of Israel in 1948 and continues till date upon various levels. Palestine is a small region that...