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The Yalta Conference: Dividing the World
February 1945. The war in Europe was ending. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta in the Crimea. They came to decide the future of the post-war wo…
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The Wannsee Conference: Planning the Final Solution
January 20, 1942. Fifteen senior Nazi officials gathered in a villa on the shores of Lake Wannsee, outside Berlin. They discussed logistics, transportation…
Business
Networking in Dubai: How Business Actually Gets Done Here
Dubai is a relationship-first business culture, which anyone who has tried to close a deal here purely over email quickly discovers. The meeting before the…
Rise of America
The Dollar: How American Currency Became the World's Money
In July 1944, representatives of forty-four nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design the postwar internati…
Strategic Affairs
The Taiwan Strait Question: India’s Silence Speaks Volumes
If you follow geopolitics, you know the Taiwan Strait is one of the hottest spots on earth. Everyone is watching to see if China makes a move. India’s st…
Rise of America
World War One and America's First Turn on the World Stage
When the guns of August opened in 1914 and Europe began tearing itself apart, most Americans wanted nothing to do with it. The war felt like exactly the ki…
Business
How to Build a Personal Brand in Dubai's Business World
Dubai is a city where people come to build — careers, businesses, legacies — and the personal brand you construct matters in direct commercial terms. T…