I enjoy sharing books with others, which was the genesis of this annual list. Six previous reviews have included monographs ...

“What you are seeing is the pincer movement closing in on the surviving top leadership,” Ajai Sahni, a counter-terrorism ...

The Naxalite insurgency, one of the world’s longest running, has claimed the lives of thousands of security personnel, rebels and civilians across central, southern and eastern India over more than ...

According to Drage’s biography, Cohen was born in London in 1889 to a family that had just arrived from Poland, but most analysts agree that he was actually born in 1887 to a poor Jewish family in a ...

The series does show citizens protesting about injustice and petitioning higher authorities for redress. But the loudest ...

Henry Kissinger’s covert visit to Beijing in 1971 to pave the way for U.S. rapprochement with Mao Zedong’s China is ... He is the author of the forthcoming biography “Zbig: The Life of ...

Persecuted by the Fascists, he fled in 1931, joined the clandestine apparatus of Italy’s Communist Party (PCd’I) in Paris, moved to the Soviet Union, followed Mao Zedong in the Long ... and an ...

and Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. This biography is the most balanced and well researched to date, combining a lively style with genuine insights derived from many years of close study. Yet ...

As Donald Trump shakes up the very institutions, alliances, and free trade order that have underpinned America’s global ...

1 / 5 | In November 1965, a review of a play about a Ming dynasty official who criticised the emperor, titled “Hai Rui Dismissed From Office”, was seen as a spark for the Cultural Revolution ...