Despite Antarctica not belonging to any state, as many as seven countries have made historical territorial claims on it.

Signed in secret at the height of the first world war, Sykes-Picot was an agreement between France and Great Britain, approved by Russia. It would have lasting consequences for the region. It is ...

The age of empires seemed to be a thing of the past. But now there are signs that some world leaders hanker after imperial ...

The Palestinian enclave has an almost unique status, as well as a long history of changing hands, making figuring out who ultimately owns the tiny territory a matter of unpacking overlapping land laws ...

Even European home waters were named by sailors after their destination. The Irish Sea was the route from England to Ireland; ...

It is well overdue that this particular rumour about Russian empress Catherine the Great is sent to the glue factory ...

USAID is only one outpost of a corrupted humanitarian establishment. “Human rights” have been turned into the anvil upon ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

The real estate transaction that enabled White settlers to colonize Manhattan was in reality an ethnic cleansing operation.

The tug of war between Denmark and America over Greenland is about much more than Donald Trump’s trademark bluster. It is also a story of colonialism, superpower rivalry and a misprint on a map.