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Russia: Looking at History as a Continuation of Politics

From On November 14, 2014 · Leave a Comment

by Igor Torbakov The leading Bolshevik historian Mikhail Pokrovsky famously defined history as “politics projected into the past.” Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is taking that concept, and running with it. The importance of history to the Kremlin was on full display at Putin’s recent meeting with young scholars and teachers of history at Moscow’s Museum

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Fall of the Berlin Wall: Looking Back and Forward

From On November 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment

by Robert E. Hunter Twenty-five years ago, on “9/11”—November 9th in European date-notation—the Berlin Wall opened and, it seemed, everything changed. Freedom was no longer just an aspiration across much of Europe but a rising reality. The transformation was so profound that it is now hard to remember the bad old days of communist oppression

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Myths and Realities of 21st Century Global Policing

From On May 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by James A. Russell

With the disappearance of war between developed states in the post-World War II era, policing intra-state violence on land and trying to punish so-called rogue states constitutes the main security problems facing the international community.

As the world’s sole military power capable of global power projection, many [...]

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