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Most people at most times have lived in empires, not nation-states. Modern military economics, urbanization, and the increased link between individuals and the government triggered widespread ethnonationalism in Europe from the 1800s to today.

The dictator and the watch; remembrance of rogues past

One of Germany's most singular achievements is to have associated itself so intimately in the world's imagination with the darkest evils of the two worst political systems of the most murderous century in human history. On the lives of others

We have never bothered to understand alien ideas ("isms" were something to fear or deride), and "selling America" had simply meant dispensing American largesse. We now see the extent of our involvement and the vulnerability of our talismans: natural resou

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<sep/>Saab, Hans Blix, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Asbjörn Eide, Iain MacGibbon, George Ofosu-Amaah, and Torkel Opsahl. delivered at the 1968 Dag Hammarskjöld Seminar on the UN<sep/>

I read about atrocities against civilians, there are two places that I read about, Iraq, and the other is Darfur. And I'm struck by the fact that the largest political movement against mass violence on US campuses is on Darfur and not on Iraq. And it puzz

Je ne suis pas venu, jeunes d'Afrique, pour pleurer avec vous sur les malheurs de l'Afrique. Car l'Afrique n'a pas besoin de mes pleurs. Je ne suis pas venu effacer le passé car le passé ne s'efface pas. Je ne suis pas venu<sep/>

"The Switzerland of Africa!" claimed his officials with enthusiasm. The businesswomen in the market got so rich they drove Mercedes, Togo's famous Nana Benz. He started having elections, but he always won. Then, after 38 years in power, he died. He had ru

These posters serve as a kind of palliative: "Get to know your local strongman", wear their political cloths and so forth.

modulo the sometimes overblown rhetoric, these make great art - the artist as activist in the independence struggle

“Democratic Developments in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving Forward or Backwards?” Akwe's recent congressional testimony. In 1989 only three countries in Africa could claim to have democratic governments.

The parade started 22 years ago, when a village residentwalked down Route 32 and announced that she was starting a parade. Her father loved the Fourth of July, and when he died, she said, it was not fun anymore. Townspeople started to march, and the parad

Seymour Hersh on Antonio Taguba laying out the machinations of Blood and Sin aka Monsieur Donald "Sin" Rumsfeld and Stephen "Blood" Cambone in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib. General Gitmo Miller also features... Ineffable sadness all around