At a time when the field is gaining new vitality abroad, area studies in the U.S. is struggling to survive. Just before ...

In the first 50 years after India gained independence in 1947, New Delhi was deeply suspicious of Washington, which it saw as an imperial power not unlike those in Europe. It repeatedly criticized the ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the ...

The Organization of Turkic States is quickly becoming a crucial mode of engagement in the Central Asian region.

The de Havilland Mosquito was a fast British multi-role combat aircraft that flew in 1940. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin ...

Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We’d gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the house, and sit down to an elaborate feast.

The Soviet Union, during the Cold War era, played a significant role in the creation of India's second IIT, which is currently ranked as the country's best IIT in the QS rankings. The agreement was ...

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

AUBURN — Alex Golesh's childhood was far from common. Before the new Auburn football coach's family eventually settled in Ohio, they were living in Russia. Golesh was born in Moscow, but at 7 years ...

Roman Surovtsev was prompt in picking up his two daughters from school every afternoon. Roman Surovstev and his wife, Samantha Surovstev. It’s important to him to be there for his smiley 3- and 5-year ...

A remote Arctic island once used as a Soviet weather station has become overrun by polar bears. On Kolyuchin Island, in Russia’s Chukchi Sea, dozens of bears now roam through abandoned buildings and ...