The future of the International Legion is more than a few prosecutions, pardons, or Russian propaganda films. It will be a memory of great or little importance to the conflict’s history.
Hartley’s work is breathtaking in its scope, but allows for the book to escape easy categorization. The Volga is not a history weaved into a travelogue like O’Shea’s 2017 The Alps, nor is it simply a regional history.
The U.K. government has a strong incentive to get the deal done to restore its status in the global trade network following its exit from the European Union.
Since its inception, football, commonly referred to as “soccer” in the U.S., has represented a unique platform for the public performance of identity. The football pitch has unified and divided, bound together and separated apart.
Natural disasters. Plagiarism scandals. Russian disinformation. The chaotic 2021 German federal election campaign could almost be mistaken for a U.S. presidential campaign. However, there is one major difference...
Kosovo faces a quandary, one in which the international community has happily involved itself. With the resulting instability comes diplomatic complications, questions of national identity, and the uncovering of boundless grief.
As Theresa May moved from being a discredited prime minister to an MP for Maidenhead, she has assumed a role which no prime minister since Edward Heath has ever taken — being the Tory rebel leader.
Belgium currently exists as a microcosm of the multicultural cooperative effort that is modern Europe. Like the broader EU, it faces the same rising tides of nationalism and populism. Will Belgium survive?
The impact of performative masculinity was at the forefront of controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic when hypermasculine leadership made mask-wearing a partisan issue.
