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What is it with architects and their obsession with white, clean and neat architecture? The world is, after all, colourful and messy. Carolyn L Kane runs us through some of her recent research and analysis on light, colour, contemporary real and virtual urban aesthetics and their joyful animation, while exposing a problematic architectural history that has persisted for over a century.
Ronald Reagan's policy toward Central America was the most controversial aspect of his presidency, with the exception of the closely related Iran–contra scandal. In many ways, the Reagan administration's Central American policy grew out of the longstanding patterns in United States–Latin American relations. The coming of the Cold War in the late 1940s raised Americans’ fears of communist subversion...
For a prominent group of political scientists, the answer to the question of how the Cold War ended would come from the structure of the international system itself. In explaining the causes of the Cold War, neorealism provided the most pristine answer to the question of what would bring about its cessation: only an alteration in the structure of the international system would do it. For conservatives,...
Reagan's engagement with Africa presents a curious blend: a historical topic that receives more and more attention (Reagan) blends with a topic that has struggled to enter the historical conversation (Africa). During the Reagan presidency Africa, and particularly apartheid South Africa, was very much a part of the contemporary conversation. Reagan consistently spoke against apartheid, remarking that...
The “culture war” is a term which refers to a fundamental dispute over the identity of western civilization. In the United States it was revealed in the contention concerning anti-communism. Norman Podhoretz and his monthly “Commentary” had played a significant role in it. The above journal, published by the American Jewish Committee was “an offensive outpost” of neoconservatism which was just being...
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