Hello, and welcome to Baltic Ways. I'm your co-host, Ben Gardner-Gill. Today we're talking with Gražina Belousova. Gražina is a feminist ...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...

From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: ...

For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with counterterrorism, has been the greatest security ...

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, foreign aid has played a major role in boosting defense capabilities and ...

Victor Liakh is the CEO of East Europe Foundation in Ukraine.

The relentless advance of ISIS in 2014/2015 has brought back to centre stage a series of questions about the nature, and even viability, of the Iraqi state. Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 ...

On November 1 2024, the roof of a newly €55 million renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second biggest city, collapsed and killed 15 people. The ...

Master of Arts in International Trade and Economic Diplomacy with a concentration in French from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. At the institute, her research centered ...

Middlebury College majoring in International Global Studies with a focus on East Asia. She currently works as a host on the Irregular Warfare podcast and a research assistant for the James Martin ...

Marisa Jones received her Master of Arts in International Trade and Economic Diplomacy from Middlebury Institute of International Studies and now works for Global Trade Compliance at Zoll Medical.

On March 4, 2025, US President Donald Trump argued before Congress in favor of reducing the budget for USAID, the agency responsible for international development assistance. Illustrating his point, ...