A History of the Chicken’s Neck, spotlights the borderland people of the eastern Himalayan region who find themselves caught in the crosscurrents of larger geopolitical rivalries.

Did you know this place has nearly 9,000 rooms… and for over 500 years, almost no one could enter? From the sky, Beijing’s ...

From a subcontinent impoverished by centuries of exploitative and often brutal colonial rule, India is today once again the ...

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Conventional wisdom tells us the liberal democracies are the most peace-loving nations. But the record tells us something ...

Vivek Chibber’s polemic denying a role for colonial plunder to the origins of capitalism is rife with errors about how the system came to be, argues Dominic Alexander The debate about the origins of ...

In 1971, London gassed the natives’ pets to give the U.S. its most strategic base in the Indian Ocean. Today, the atoll is a ...

Explore insights on Russia's imperial structure and the patterns of decline shared by empires, as discussed by historian ...

President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the ...

Historical empires like Spain, Britain, and the Soviet Union have experienced economic decline through seven identifiable ...

Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt social structures and destabilize political systems. An interdisciplinary research team demonstrated this using the example of the late Tang ...

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