In this video I briefly discuss the colonization history of the territories that would eventually constitute the Kingdom of ...

As the Iran war expands, the roots of many West Asia conflicts lie in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the European agreements that redrew the region's borders after World War I.

The phrase 'Middle East' sounds neutral, but it was born from the British empire. Coined by Western strategists looking out ...

Jens Schanze’s doc, premiering at Copenhagen, confronts "past colonization and present-day resource politics" in Bolivia and beyond with epic images, an observational approach, and, yes, llamas.

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy Pre-colonial African societies have long been seen ...

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

Taxation and fiscal reforms have historically triggered some of the most consequential social and political upheavals in human history. The French Revolution of 1789, for instance, was driven largely ...

With attacks and threats, Tehran is using the world’s most important transit point for oil and gas as leverage against its enemies. The paths of ships struck in and near the Persian Gulf Note: Damage ...

Mr Chairman, rdquo; was Kwame Nkrumah Jr unmoved . With historic stubbornness did he follow his course in his mission to bring new justice to Africa .

When Trump granted white South Africans refugee status, he was echoing a falsehood about Black people taking revenge for years of brutality. But no one flourishes in a repressive police state ...

In the days that preceded March 6, 1957, when the Gold Coast shed its colonial label and stood on the brink of independence, its leaders reached back into West Africa’s deep past to settle on the name ...

The question is no longer whether the sector knows better. It does. It’s whether the humanitarian funding model is willing to produce anything else.