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Volker Weiß (2025): Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich
Volker Weiß (2025): Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich
Wie die extreme Rechte Geschichte und Demokratie zerstört. Die extreme Rechte will den westlichen Liberalismus überwinden und eine alternative Geschichtsdeutung durchsetzen. Der Autor Volker Weiß z...
US at 250: Internationalism vs. isolationism – America’s enduring foreign policy debate
US at 250: Internationalism vs. isolationism – America’s enduring foreign policy debate
...ngton’s warning against entangling alliances and Wilson’s failed bid to reshape world order, to Roosevelt’s reluctant march into World War Two and contemporary doubts about ...
Arne Westad: Why Today Looks Like 1914
Arne Westad: Why Today Looks Like 1914
...iversity, joins the Trialogue to discuss his new book The Coming Storm, why the world today resembles the years before World War I more than the Cold War, what roles the U.S...
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General History of Africa
General History of Africa
The General History of Africa (GHA) is a UNESCO initiative seeking to tell the history of the continent from an African perspective. For centuries, the historical narrative of Africa has been shape...
Ruti Teitel on How US Presidents Confront the Nation's Past
Ruti Teitel on How US Presidents Confront the Nation's Past
... past. "A kind of embracing or appropriation of the US role in the Americas pre-World War I and World War II." Teitel joined Council President and CEO Leslie Vinjamuri in a...
The Burden of History: How Presidents Confront the Nation's Past
The Burden of History: How Presidents Confront the Nation's Past
What does it take for a nation to reckon with its past? American presidents have long wrestled with this question, using tools of transitional justice to confront historical harms both at home and ...
A História da Web e Seu Impacto no Mundo: Da Primeira Página as Grandes Plataformas
A História da Web e Seu Impacto no Mundo: Da Primeira Página as Grandes Plataformas
... uma rede aberta e segura para todas e todos. #HistoriaDaWeb #EvolucaoDigital #WorldWideWeb #CulturaDigital #InternetDasCoisas #InovacaoTecnologica
A História da Web e Seu Impacto no Mundo: Da Primeira Página as Grandes Plataformas
A História da Web e Seu Impacto no Mundo: Da Primeira Página as Grandes Plataformas
... uma rede aberta e segura para todas e todos. #HistoriaDaWeb #EvolucaoDigital #WorldWideWeb #CulturaDigital #InternetDasCoisas #InovacaoTecnologica
What is the United Nations?
What is the United Nations?
Originally published by UN Video: https://youtu.be/Ttoad811t88?si=V50tnn8Nn9pB4yc3 Anna Wilson explains the fundamentals of the organization and breaks down the basics: How it started? What it doe...
10 Best U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions: The Louisiana Purchase
10 Best U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions: The Louisiana Purchase
In a survey, CFR asked members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations what they considered to be the best and worst foreign policy decisions in U.S. history. In 1803, envoys fr...
The World Leader Quiz: Can you name all three?
The World Leader Quiz: Can you name all three?
Test your knowledge with this World Leaders Quiz from CFR. In this trivia challenge, we’ll show you an image of a current w...
"What’s going on in the world?" Why global civilization will survive the decline of the West
"What’s going on in the world?" Why global civilization will survive the decline of the West
In this new session of the "What’s going on in the world?" series of conferences, CIDOB will host a conversation with Amitav Acharya, author of ...
Navigating a mulipolar global order
Navigating a mulipolar global order
...o an end, and what follows the era of American hegemony? In this episode of The World Stage, Senior Research Fellow Wrenn Yennie Lindgren (NUPI) sits down with Manjeet Parde...
The Growing Risk of Great Power War: A Conversation with Arne Westad
The Growing Risk of Great Power War: A Conversation with Arne Westad
...r, Conflict, and Warnings from History. He explains why the years leading up to World War I, rather than the Cold War, offer a striking parallel from history for today’s U.S...
10 Best U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions: The Creation of NATO
10 Best U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions: The Creation of NATO
...ed to be the best and worst foreign policy decisions in U.S. history. Following World War II, the United States committed itself to the defense of Europe with the creation o...
Book Talk: William Easterly on “Violent Saviors,” Colonialism, & Global Development
Book Talk: William Easterly on “Violent Saviors,” Colonialism, & Global Development
Economist William Easterly’s new book Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquer of the Rest is a sweeping history of 400 years of Western colonialism, and the associated justifications of colonial domina...
Book Talk | The West: The History of an Idea
Book Talk | The West: The History of an Idea
During and after the Cold War, the term “The West” was used as a term to describe a set of countries, political systems, ideas and values that were assumed to be fixed, permanent and even in a sens...
Welcome to Cold War Two: historian Niall Ferguson on geopolitics in 2026
Welcome to Cold War Two: historian Niall Ferguson on geopolitics in 2026
... lot to make us optimistic. Gayle Markovitz interviewed Niall Ferguson at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos. Links: The Global Risks Report 2026: http...
Writing Ethiopia into the World and Writing the World from Ethiopia | EWNET Webinar
Writing Ethiopia into the World and Writing the World from Ethiopia | EWNET Webinar
...n into global knowledge, and how have Ethiopian thinkers and rulers written the world from Ethiopia? In this public lecture, Christopher Clapham reflects on the role of for...