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It is just as well that, when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin March 5, Turkey’s President Rejep Tayyip Erdogan did not look up to his right. If he had, he would have seen towering over him a lofty statue of Russia’s Catherine the Great, who in the 18th century sheared Erdogan’s Ottoman forebears of much of their European territory and many of their rights in the shared Black Sea.
This post is something new for me, an autobiographical fragment written at the request of an online listserv as a suggestive model for academics at the start of their careers as diplomatic historians. I publish it here.
by Richard Falk This piece is crossposted from the personal blog of JWE Board member Richard Falk. [Prefatory Note from R. Falk: This post was initially published on January 27, …
by Richard Falk This piece is crossposted from a portion of the interview as published on the personal blog of JWE Board member Richard Falk. [Prefatory Note by R. Falk: …
Washington DC, May 18– Any U.S. military attack against Iran could very well trigger Iranian retaliation using such means as bombings and cyber attacks, and if these in turn should …
On July 9, Recep Tayyip Erdogan started a new term as Turkey’s president– and his first with the enhanced powers that came from constitutional changes that he had sought and …
In recent weeks, the NYC-based Nation magazine has hosted an intriguing discussion about the use of political violence in one of the great anti-colonial movements of the twentieth century: the …
We’ve been refining our thinking for the #WarHurtsEarth campaign that we’re planning for Earth Day 2018 (April 22.) As you can read here, we’re planning for this campaign to have …
In late January, Just World Educational brought veteran UN watcher Ian Williams to Washington DC, to discuss US-UN ties (in general) with members of the city’s World Affairs Council. We …
On November 30, veteran UN watcher Ian Williams and cartoonist “Krishna” headlined two events at the United Nation’s mid-town Manhattan HQ. At noon-time, in the UN’s bookstore, they launched their …
