World History

The war in Iraq continues to dominate international developments and in its uncertain course casts a shadow not only on the foreign policy record o

Following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, smaller, independent, ethnically-based political entities emerged.

It is a common belief that every historian, in trying to describe any episode from the human past, cannot help but color his narrative with the hue

Among spokemen for the Post-Marxist Left, Jürgen Habermas (1923–) may be the most prominent and, in his own country, the most honored.

The European Union is a continental movement with an American pedigree.

In this article, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. reviews Nicholas Orme’s Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England.

The Peace of Westphalia (1648), which closed out the era of wars “of”—or allegedly “about”—religion, established what might

In this article, medieval thinkers will be explored and how they dealt with these ideas, and developed them into the concept that “political legiti

During the sectional crisis, the overwhelming practical and theoretical inheritance that nourished the Southern worldview was built upon an appreci

In this article, Nortbert Lennartz reviews Michael van Notten’s The Law of the Somalis: A Stable Foundation for Economic Development in t