international relations

The author of the 20th century’s most influential history book anticipates the coming world order.

One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that transcends generations.

"The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge"

The type of quiet, personal, informed diplomacy advocated by George Kennan can reduce tensions with China and Russia.

The concept of geopolitics comes from German and Russian attempts to explain defeat and reverse loss of influence.

As the war in Ukraine worsens, there’s little debate about Western policy choices. This is a mistake.

U.S. immigration policies are inextricably linked to American foreign relations.

Michael A. McDonnell’s book is a wonderfully researched microhistory of the Michilimackinac area from the mid-17th to the early 19th century.

How the Nazi government used exchange student programs to foster sympathy for Nazism in the United States.

The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.

The former secretary of state is responsible for virtually every American geopolitical disaster of the past half-century.

In sending military aid to Ukraine, America’s values and security interests are aligned.

The special relationship between the United States and Israel was cemented by the support offered by Lyndon B. Johnson throughout the sixties.

Americans have been isolated at the U.N. on Israel for a half century — but that used to prompt fierce debate.

On Samuel Moyn's Cold War liberalism.

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?

The term is 80 years old. Everyone is still fighting over its meaning.

The troubled history of the famous poinsettia plant.

Fulbright created an exchange program which sends Americans abroad and advances international engagement and mutual understanding. Yet it’s not his only legacy.

Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.