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June 19, 2020

United States

Five Foreign-Policy Satires Worth Watching

Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: classic satires.

The movie posters from The Great Dictator (yellow with Charlie Chaplin over a globe), Dr. Strangelove (black and white actor smoking a cigarette), In the Loop (two silhouettes, one with U.S. flag the other with the UK flag), MASH (a hand with the peace sign and an army helmet on the finger), Catch-22 (a man walks away from a plane wreckage in the desert), and Wag the Dog (a tape recorder with the presidential seal) arranged in one picture.

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

November 4, 2013

Europe and Eurasia

Reflections on the Causes of the First World War

Experts discuss the events that led up to the First World War.

Event by Margaret MacMillan, Robert K. Massie, and David A. Andelman

July 1, 2020

Political History and Theory

Living in History

Whether you think we are making history or repeating it, it’s safe to say we are living in a historic time. In this episode, Why It Matters asks three historians to weigh in on how to use the past to…

Hong Kong protester reads book while sitting

Podcast by Gabrielle Sierra, Richard Haass, Margaret MacMillan, and Annette Gordon-Reed Why It Matters

March 29, 2012

Middle East and North Africa

Keynote: The Arab Uprisings: How Did We Get Here?

RICHARD HAASS: Good evening. Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations. And we're very glad to have all of you here for what is now the fifth symposium in a series supported by the Hauser Foundati…

Event by Margaret MacMillan and Richard Haass

October 5, 2020

United States

Isolationism, First U.S. Foreign Policy Tradition, Continues to Pull America Back From World, Writes Kupchan in New Book

The first full account of American isolationism throughout U.S. history

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