Politics and Government

Across the Middle East in the post-World War I era, European strategic moves converged with late Ottoman political practice and a newly emboldened ...

Any attempt at comparing contemporary change in the UK and France is a bold one, since it means discussing two very different countries with strong...

Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia known locally as the trampoline of death to demonstrate how state-building processe...

Many nuclear and other U.S. military facilities from World War II and the Cold War are now being closed and remediated. Some of these sites have ev...

Zimbabwe's catastrophic cholera outbreak of 20089 saw an unprecedented number of people affected, with 100,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths. Chole...

Starting as a civil uprising calling for liberal reforms in March 2011, the unrest in Syria rapidly deteriorated into a proxy-led armed conflict in...

While security stories often point to real threats, the narratives of leaders are as much about legitimating the power of rulers and the political ...

The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the fascinating 2017 British general election....

In 2011, Silvio Berlusconi''s government fell amid a severe financial crisis that called into question the sustainability of Italy''s enormous p...

In 2012, the spotlight was on Prime Minister Monti and his government of non-elected ministers. Early in the year, the new government''s economi...

The Diary of President Barack Obama The White House May 19, 2010 I was going to write about tonights state dinner for Mexico and the amnesty plan, ...

The Small Arms Survey 2010 focuses on gangs and non-state armed groups. Gang violence, while typically directed at other gang members, can account ...