The geopolitical relationship between the United States and Iran must be understood within the broader context of Cold War strategy, energy security and ...

March 12th marked pivotal moments in history, including Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March in 1930, Germany's annexation of Austria ...

The critical question is not whether Washington can inflict damage on Iran. It clearly can. The question is whether damage ...

Donald Trump’s call for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” revives a wartime slogan that assumes a state capable of ...

American interest in Cuba dates back over two centuries. As early as the early 1800s, U.S. leaders saw Cuba as strategically and economically valuable due to its location near Florida and its rich ...

The US suffered an epochal defeat in its intervention in Vietnam, but the lessons from that war have been forgotten or ignored now in the attack on Iran, argues Chris Bambery Last week Reuters ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Exiles in America: Cuban Pedro Pans and Balseros consists of eleven born digital oral history interviews about the journeys and experiences of ...

The 1960s were a wild time for the CIA. When they weren’t dosing each other with acid or trying to use exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro, the Agency’s staff were exploring other novel approaches ...

A Council on Foreign Relations symposium on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II suggests two critical lessons for policymaking today.

On Runit Island in the Marshall Islands, a concrete lid sits low against the Pacific, close enough to the tide line that the ...

The late Iranian Supreme Leader suppressed a determined grassroots struggle for self-determination—often with crushing ...

Sanae Takaichi made history last fall when she became the first female prime minister in the history of Japan. Her professional mentors have included the late, powerful former Prime Minister ...