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...Europe is among the most contested in human history, but since the Soviet Union imploded, the EU has redefined their purpose. For a millennium after the fall of Rome, realpolitik ruled European polities, creating small, warring states that competed for preeminence and hegemony. Some even dreamt of empire on the continent, based on race, ideology, glory, or all of the above. They all failed. Political cartography became a popular art: Maps were redrawn endlessly following every war. Those borders were key to separating communities with particular languages, religions, and cultures...
...assistance to dismantle Osama bin Laden's terror state in Afghanistan. But relations remain frayed between the two nations because of Pakistan's memory of Washington's hot-and-cold attentions. "There's a complete lack of trust going back to after the first Afghan war [against the Soviet Union] - when we left them high and dry with 500,000 refugees," Zinni says. "And then we came rushing toward them after 9/11...
...Senate agriculture committees cleverly tacked food stamps onto farm bills to solidify the support of urban legislators. But when Republicans seized Congress in 1994, promising a revolutionary age of fiscal conservatism and free-market capitalism, they vowed to gut command-and-coddle farm policies that they compared to Soviet communism. They wanted the government to treat agriculture like any other business, and they said they'd offer farmers a deal: no more supply controls, so farmers could plant what they wanted, but no more subsidies, so they would have to survive on their...
John Le Carre's novels, in which secret agents confound one another with twisted espionage games, may have taken inspiration from legendary, real-life Soviet master-spy Alexander Feklisov, the cold-war operative who ran some of the KGB's deadliest spies in the West. Feklisov's recruits included Julius Rosenberg, widely believed to have provided information on the Manhattan Project, and German scientist Klaus Fuchs, who had worked at the Los Alamos lab. Feklisov was pivotal in his country's acquisition of the nuclear bomb, first exploded in 1949, some five years before U.S. agents expected...
...local businesses so that villagers do not have to resort to poaching, and Tommy Remengesau Jr., the President of the Pacific Island nation of Palau, who has led efforts to preserve a priceless marine environment. Some were activists, like Olga Tsepilova, who has exposed the dangerous legacy of the Soviet Union's nuclear program, and some were industrialists, like Tulsi Tanti, the wind-power king of India...