Cold War

Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping are both looking to stay in power beyond their usual term limits.Credit: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters This week, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, asked the courts to allow him to change the nation’s constitution, so it would no longer prevent him from standing for re-election beyond…

Like other powerful women in the traditionally male-dominated societies of the Balkans during the communist era, Nexhmije Hoxha, Albania’s “first lady” for more than 40 years, owed her influence to her husband, the country’s dictatorial ruler Enver Hoxha. But, unlike Elena Ceausescu of Romania or Mira Markovic, wife of former…

Long before Parasite conquered the UK’s foreign-language box office and Cold War hit new heights for Polish cinema, Mój Nikifor sold just one ticket in September 2007. But it’s an under-appreciated gem, finds Adam Solomons On Friday September 14, 2007, three years after its premiere at the Gdynia Film Festival…

Photo: Gage SkidmoreAt various points in his presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders has faced questions and scrutiny about his past associations with controversial leftist regimes and groups overseas.  Last year, he almost cut short an interview with the New York Times podcast The Daily when Michael Barbaro, the host, mentioned Sanders’s…

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Editor’s note (March 9th 2020): This article has been updated to include market reactionsNO ONE KNEW exactly what deal would emerge from Vienna, but an accord seemed certain. Saudi Arabia and Russia, two of the world’s oil superpowers, had worked together since 2016 to control output and support prices. With…

NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps 2020-03-06T18:01:28Z Staff officers from NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps visit British Royal Engineers in Minden, northwestern Germany to learn about amphibious engineering ahead of the Corps’s participation in Exercise Defender Europe 20, February 26, 2020. British Army/Sgt. Alistair Laidlaw NATO officers and British engineers got…

In retrospect, Richard Nixon was certain to win re-election in 1972. The economy was recovering from a recession during his first two years in office, he had wound down the Vietnam War, and his trips to Beijing and Moscow, transforming and defusing the Cold War, were enormously popular. Yet he…

From the Age of Sail through to the Second World War, naval combat was done primarily in close quarters and with cannons. Naturally the technology improved quite a bit in those intervening centuries, but the idea was more or less the same: the ship with the most guns and most…