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December 5, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Arthur Chaskalson: An Architect of Democratic South Africa

Lawyers can be improbable heroes, but Arthur Chaskalson was one.  He used the law to hobble apartheid and subsequently helped author a post-apartheid legal system that subordinated the parliament to …

 SOUTH AFRICA PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI TAKES OATH WITH CHIEF JUSTICE ARTHUR CHASKALSON. 27/04/2004.

April 19, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Donald Trump Declines to Fight Aid to Ukraine

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Donald Trump has chosen to stand aside as the House of Representatives moves to vote on aid to Ukra…

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January 10, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
TWE Remembers: Sen. Arthur Vandenberg’s Conversion to Internationalism

  In a post earlier today, I mentioned that Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI), a leading isolationist voice on Capitol Hill in the years before World War II, dismissed the Ludlow Amendment as a terrib…

Senator Arthur Vandenberg

June 22, 2023

United States
Meet Doug Burgum, Republican Presidential Candidate

The North Dakota governor is a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Burgum

February 25, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
TWE Remembers: John Foster Dulles

Every day thousands of people fly into and out of Washington’s Dulles International Airport. Few of them think about the man for whom the airport is named, John Foster Dulles. He was born on this day…

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