He is the author of ; Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. ..…

One hundred years after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, Veterans Day has morphed into yet another vacuous opportunity for the over-adulation of millions of veterans, without the least bit of actual contemplation on the nature of the wars they’ve been asked to fight. ..…

Middle-aged veterans of the Great War came by the thousands to pay respect to the commander who had, after a series of mutinies by desperate French soldiers on the western front, resisted further massive infantry offensives against entrenched German positions. ..…

The results of studiesin war-ravaged  Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo   have been widely cited by Western political leaders and Western media with no hint of controversy.. ... American reporters in Iraq,  Beyond Green Zone, and that it was not much lower as..…

Due to the economic sanctions imposed by Western governments at the time, most foreign direct investment after 1988 came from East Asia, especially China. . Legislative changes since 2011 have further reduced restrictions on foreign capital, and there have been efforts to court Western..…

We have often treated those south of the border as inferior peoples since the beginning of our imperialist aims in the Western Hemisphere with the Monroe Doctrine, then the Roosevelt Corollary, and US military interventionism over the last century throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. . ..…

Jeremy Corbyn speaks of the need for 'kinder and gentler politics and the badness of 'the Tories, and it's matter of objective record that he has spent the greater part of his life producing vile apologia for Third World dictatorships and terrorist groups. ..…

World War I was a catastrophe for Western civilization. One hundred years ago, on November 11th, it finally came to an end. ..…

Just look at some pictures of the Western Front, where he served.  'One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression,' Tolkien wrote in his introduction to his trilogy. ..…

The only bilingual general on Entente side was French Robert Nivelle, who became the commander-in-chief on Western Front December 1916. ..…

Ratelband’s demand is the latest example of a remarkable trend that has taken hold in Western countries over the last decade. ..…

The devastating effects of three and half years of slaughter and the military defeats on Western front led to revolutionary crisis.. ..…

Citation Finer M, Jenkins CN, Pimm SL, Keane B, Ross C Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples. ..…

Grace graduated law at Western Sydney University and was admitted to practice in 2005.. Grace is undertaking post graduate studies at Western Sydney University in School of Law. ..…

After World War Two, by contrast, United States underwrote the rebuilding and defense of western Europe and backed the process of integration that has culminated in EU. ..…

The Court’s action came almost 100 years to the day that the guns fell silent on the Western Front. . . ... As Max Hastings explains, “Until 1918, the fundamental options before the Western allies were those of acquiescing in German hegemony on the continent, or of continuing to bear..…

The area is part of the Western Wall of the Temple Mount enclosure. Jews and Christians believe it to be the last remnant of the second temple, which the Roman Empire destroyed in a.d. 70. ..…