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How Do Countries Select Their Foreign Policy Tools?
In this educational video on foreign policy, explore how U.S. relations with Japan have changed over the past century, from Pearl Harbor to a peaceful alliance.
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What Is the Liberal World Order?
Explore the organizations and agreements that have promoted global peace and prosperity since the end of World War II, as well as the challenges that the liberal world order now faces in this video.
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Why Do We Live in Countries?
Want to understand how sovereignty became part of world history? In this educational video, learn why kingdoms turned into countries after the Thirty Years’ War.
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Essential Events Before 1900
Explore the key moments that laid the groundwork for our global era.
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How Do Countries Decide Whether to Go to War?
Learn how balances and imbalances of power contributed to World Wars I and II.
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Essential Events Between 1900 and 1945
Learn how two world wars and other critical developments reshaped global affairs in the first half of the twentieth century.
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The Rise and Fall of the Responsibility to Protect
Sovereignty is sacred. But when lives are in danger, does that principle still apply?
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How Do Treaties Get Made?
In this U.S. foreign policy video, understand the challenges of negotiating treaties and dive into two international climate agreements.
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Terrorism and the Media
How do terrorists use the media? From Osama bin Laden to the Islamic State, learn how terrorists use internet and media coverage to shape their goals.
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The History of Terrorism and U.S. Counterterrorism Since 1945
From the creation of the CIA to the “War on Terror,” learn about the evolution of U.S. counterterrorism policies in this terrorism timeline.