Ukraine’s fate is in the hands of the world’s three superpowers: China, Russia, and the United States. To glimpse Ukraine’s future, we should look at how past superpower conflicts ended. Throughout ...

Cynicism feels like realism, but it’s actually a form of blindness. It prevents you from seeing the change agents working in ...

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Hal Brands, the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International ...

The Cold War was an ideological conflict between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. Despite being called a war, it was not a direct military ...

Is the world entering a new cold war? Our answer is yes and no. Yes if we mean a protracted international rivalry, for cold wars in this sense are as old as history itself. Some became hot, some ...

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date . . . nor was any item of the news, nor any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to ...

Longtime Bowdoin history professor Allen Wells recasts the recent history of Latin America as a battle of democracy vs. dictatorship, rather than left vs. right. “When we think of Latin America, the ...

The Cold War was a global struggle of the United States and democratic capitalism vs. the Soviet Union and communism. It erupted in the mid-1940s after both nations emerged from World War II as ...

A vintage Cold War air raid siren that stood atop a tower in a Seattle park for more than 70 years remains in the hands of a private salvage yard in Kent. And that’s where the man who now owns the ...

The Cold War was a dark time. It began shortly after World War II and officially ended with the fall of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991. Soon after the Cold War began, for the first time in ...