If it weren’t for decades of Western-backed political and economic repression, the Philippines might have joined the Asian Tigers years ago.
Keeping North Korean in Japan
Parents and students in Japan’s “North Korean” schools struggle to maintain their identity in an increasingly hostile environment.
The Battle of Berlin: 70 Years Ago This Month
Starting on November 17, the British launched the single most intensive bombing attack on a city in World War II.
The Hashimoto Controversy and Japan’s Failure to Come to Terms with its Past
The words were so brazen that they have created a firestorm globally. Characterized as “outspoken” and “brash” in the international media, Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto has claimed that “comfort women”—the thousands of Asian women who were forced to serve as prostitutes during the Second World War—were “necessary” for the morale of Japanese troops.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (4/12)
From WWII to Afghanistan, and the Iron Lady.
Seminal New Book Shows Just How Little German Army Objected to Holocaust
The Wehrmacht only objected to the Third Reich’s policies of extermination when it looked like it might suffer the repercussions.
How West Africa Helped Win World War II
In June 1940, when France fell to the German invasion, Italy seized the moment to attack British positions in Egypt, Kenya, and Sudan. By the end of March 1941, German Major-General Erwin Rommel’s mechanized troops had driven the British out of Libya and back into Egypt. In late spring, German and Italian aircraft were pummeling Britain’s sea stations in the Mediterranean, making it difficult if not impossible for supply ships to reach British forces in the Middle East. The remaining sea route by which to deliver supplies to Egypt was via Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, but that was a protracted journey of three to four months, a luxury of time that Britain simply did not have.
UN Origins Project Part 7: Forging a Lasting Peace
After two cataclysmic world wars, the overriding concern for leaders of the day was engineering an international system that would increase state interdependence.
UN Origins Project Series, Part 6: The Things We Fight For
It was the economic deprivation of the 30s that allowed totalitarianism to flourish and shatter the fragile peace that followed World War I.
UN Origins Project Series, Part 5: Sharpening the Teeth of Peace
After World War II, for the first time, nations not only agreed upon liability for war crimes, but for the principle of attacking the international peace.