‘Hokum’ Is Haunted by Ireland’s Dark History
A reclusive U.S. novelist, Ohm Bauman, comes to a remote Irish hotel to scatter his parents’ ashes at the site…
Žyma: History
Kent State, Minneapolis, and the History of State Violence in the United States
The horror of watching a U.S. citizen die at the hands of federal or state officials transcends ordinary politics. Such…
What Zubok’s History Reveals About U.S.-Russia Relations Today
The Cold War is historically anomalous. It was awkwardly long, with no clear origin or conclusion. It was awkwardly vast,…
Vladislav Zubok’s New Cold War History Is a Factory of Russian Resentment
In May, a replica of a monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in Moscow’s Taganskaya metro station. Just…
Non-Western History Shows Why the End of U.S. Hegemony and the Rise of a Multipolar World Need Not Mean Chaos
As the era of U.S. primacy comes to an end, academics and policymakers have quite naturally been debating what comes…
International Reads on History, Foreign Policy, Technology
At Foreign Policy, it’s not the holidays until we’ve asked our columnists and staff writers for their book recommendations. Off…