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The Hong Men Banquet Reimagined: Trump, Zelensky, and the Trap of Modern Diplomacy
In the twilight of the Qin Dynasty, around 206 BCE, Chinese history recorded one of its most famous political traps—the Hong Men Banquet. Military...
Review of Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935 during his imprisonment by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, is one of the most important...
Trump Runs Riot Ignoring or Ignorant of Palestine History
Reminiscent of the old colonial days the U.S. President held forth to a group of Washington news men, describing his plan for Gaza as...
Serbia 1835 and 2025: Will history repeat—or rewrite itself?
Kragujevac, Serbia—15 February 1835 marked a fleeting moment of audacity. In this unassuming city, then Serbia’s capital, enlightenment-inspired reformers presented the Sretenje Constitution—a radical...
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? – Book Review
Graham Allison is an eminent scholar from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, founding Dean of the Kennedy School and former Head of...
80 Years of Auschwitz Liberation: Is History Repeating Itself?
On 27 January 1945, Soviet troops marched in and liberated the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, situated in German-occupied Poland during...
The Legacy of U.S. Presidents: A Less Secure World
The passing of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, comes at a time when the world is waiting for Donald Trump’s...
Syria and the Levant: Building Stability Amidst Shifting Ambitions
The Levant has long been a stage upon which the drama of history has unfolded- a region where empires collided, faiths converged, and civilizations...
Applying Raimo Vayrynen’s Model of Conflict Transformation to the Angolan Civil-War
Raimo Varynen’s conflict transformation model is somehow similar to the Jp Lederachs model except for minor differences. The model revolves around four major divisions:
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The Indonesian-Dutch Diaspora Through a Post-Colonial Lens
For over three centuries, the relationship between Indonesia and the Netherlands was dominated by the dynamics of colonialism, leaving a profound imprint on the...