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In 1602, Matteo Ricci (利瑪竇), Jesuit cartographer to the court of the Wan Li (萬曆) Emperor, traced out a great map of the entire world (坤輿萬國全圖) on which he noted that the domain of the “Great Ming” stretched from “the 42nd parallel in the North to the 15th in the South” (自十五度至四十二度). Far south of…

This article was written by IWP student Logan West. Washington, as a world power, and Budapest, as a regional leader, need to behave accordingly by working toward shared goals and conducting themselves in a manner befitting their alliance. If a snapshot of today’s dialogue between Hungary and the United States says anything about the relationship between…

This month marks a year and a half since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began (in 2022). Unfortunately there is still no end in sight. U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent order to share evidence of Russian war crimes with the international court is the latest revelation into just how commonplace these atrocities have been — and continue…

Russia’s war on Ukraine has created innumerable opportunities for human traffickers. Between the eight million refugees and the eight million internally displaced persons, traffickers can find an almost endless supply of people who are vulnerable to offers of food, shelter, or work. The Ukrainian police are doing all they can to thwart the traffickers. Read…

In July of this year, less than 90 days after Turkiye’s recent Presidential elections, the Turkish Government recently took three important steps that were welcomed by Ankara’s allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) but clearly damaged Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan’s relationship his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.  First, on the eve of the…

A new book outlines what happens when businesses forsake their true mission—to serve the customer—and instead seek to transform the culture. Is there any hope that business will get back to, well, business? The woke agenda in corporate America is increasingly tyrannical and must be stopped to preserve free markets and the American way of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin told a group of reporters recently that while Russia “is ready for any scenario,” the country does not want a direct clash with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).  The Russian leader was referring to the recent collision of Russian and U.S. aircraft in Syria, and the threat of a direct…

The past several years have been troubling for a lot of us. A worldwide pandemic, financial burdens, political division, racial tensions … just surviving some days feels like a victory. On April 10, 1960, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. In his address, titled “Keep Moving…

The Washington Naval Conference, 1921–1922 Notice that the keyword in the title is NOT “prevent,” nor “end,” but “contain,” an expression that goes back to the beginning of the Cold War (1946). In that year, George Kennan, a State Department officer in Moscow, wrote back that the U.S. must maintain “a long-term, patient but firm…

Of all the great “conceptions” (plan, idea, design, image, cause) on the political globe, there is none so noble, majestic, nor so idealistic as the union of the western democracies in a single sovereignty stretching beyond both shores of the Atlantic Ocean. This notion has been dominant in theoretical/philosophical circles even before the nation-state (1648)…