The Brown Journal of World Affairs publishes article on WWI by Dr. John Tierney
The 21.1 edition of The Brown Journal of World Affairs contains an article co-authored by IWP professor John Tierney and by David Ashlstrom entitled “Revisiting WWI.”
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Failures of U.S. Intelligence: Americans Must Become Better Spies
There is a growing danger that the two most important global "ships," the United States and the European Union, might pass each other in the night. As evidenced by President George W. Bush's two summer tours of Europe, and the media frenzies that preceded them, the sources of contention between the two world powers are…
Read More ›Advances Abroad, Struggles Within
On that day, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), which had been known for 45 years as West Germany, officially absorbed the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, reuniting a people who had been split apart politically, culturally, philosophically, and spiritually for decades by a cruel superpower conflict. The event actually began with the…
Read More ›The World of Child Labor
As Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Delaware) told a U.S. Department of Labor hearing in 1997, “In an age of computers, fiber optics, and space travel, it is easy to forget that in many parts of the world–including our own backyard–children are sold into servitude, chained to machines, and forced to work under the most dangerous and…
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Controlling the Panama Canal
In this PBS Online NewsHour Forum, Professor Tierney and William Ratliff of the Hoover Institution discuss the national security implications over who would control of the Panama Canal.
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America’s “Black Vietnam”: Haiti’s Cacos vs. The Marine Corps, 1915-22
More than twenty years ago, IWP Walter Kohler Professor John Tierney wrote the following account of the initial U.S. intervention of Haiti in 1915, which he entitled America's "Black Vietnam." The article appeared in the Fall 1981 edition of the Lincoln Review, a scholarly journal on African-American affairs. The article is republished here to provide…
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