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Middle East Online
September 11, 2017
After all, this is a man who prides himself on being unpredictable in business negotiations, as historian William R. Polk, who worked for theÃÂ ...
The Killeen Daily Herald
August 28, 2017
Funeral services for Loretta Polk Mitchell, 61, of Round Rock, will be at 11 a.m. today at God's Holy Tabernacle Church of God in Christ inÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
January 25, 2017
The famous American historian William Polk described his return to the ... During his stay, he was able to chain the history of the Arab region,ÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
December 13, 2016
Saudi King Salman received Orientalist and Specialist in the Political Science and History of the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula Dr. WilliamÃÂ ...
Mount Airy News
September 12, 2016
Llewellyn recreated the character of William Polk Dobson, who ... who are working hard to keep Rockford's history, and spirit, alive today.
Consortium News
November 17, 2015
... to provoke the West into a self-defeating overreaction, a trap that “tough” politicians are falling into, as historian William R. Polk describes.
The Atlantic
June 23, 2014
The diplomat and scholar William R. Polk (right) first wrote about the Middle East in The Atlantic back in 1958, ... Now, over to William Polk:.
The Atlantic
September 16, 2013
By William R. Polk. Reflections on the Syrian Chemical Weapons Issue and Beyond. Because so much of the information and comment in theÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
September 4, 2013
By William R. Polk. ... If you're in a rush, you could skip ahead to question #7, on the history and use of chemical weapons. ... By William Polk .... As a historian, dealing as one always does, with incomplete information, I haveÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
February 23, 2013
William R. Polk's first appearance as an Atlantic author came 55 years ago. While Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House, while AmericansÃÂ ...
Consortium News
December 31, 1999
... in the Cuban Missile Crisis, writes historian William R. Polk. ..... We don't need more nuclear weapons powers; the political history of SouthÃÂ ...
Consortium News
December 31, 1999
... the history behind today's crisis reveals of a more complex reality that could change those simplistic impressions, as historian William R. PolkÃÂ ...
Seeking Alpha
February 6, 2017
W.P. Carey was a real estate asset management company with a history of managing investors' money in dedicated funds long before it became an owner of a portfolio of net-lease properties.
Al-Arabiya
January 25, 2017
The famous American historian William Polk described his return to the kingdom as a new chapter of the "One Thousand and One Nights" tale; this is due to the huge difference between the Kingdom of today and what it was like when he first visited it in ...
PJ Media
January 20, 2017
New Jerusalem mayor-elect Nir Barkat touches the Western Wall, as he prays at Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008.
Asharq Al-awsat English
December 14, 2016
On the other hand, Saudi King Salman received Orientalist and Specialist in the Political Science and History of the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula Dr.
Al-Arabiya
December 13, 2016
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received Orientalist and Specialist in the Political Science and History of the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula Dr.
PJ Media
December 6, 2016
In the midst of all the euphoria concerning Mr. Trump's election to the presidency, the president-elect has suggested that a possible role for his son-in-law Jared Kushner might be to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Arabs.
Elkin Jonesville Tribune
November 16, 2016
5 to 8 p.m., the Surry County Historial Society will hold its annual meeting featuring "Early Residents of Rockford" by the NoneSuch Playmakers led by Brack and Angela Llewellyn as they portray Rockford's founders and community leaders in a living ...
CounterCurrents.org
November 14, 2016
Gradual formation of nation states exploded into empires - Ottoman, Russian, Austrian-Hungarian, British, French, and the short lived Nazi Germany.
Elkin Jonesville Tribune
November 11, 2016
5 to 8 p.m., the Surry County Historial Society will hold its annual meeting featuring "Early Residents of Rockford" by the NoneSuch Playmakers led by Brack and Angela Llewellyn as they portray Rockford's founders and community leaders in a living ...
Mount Airy News
November 10, 2016
DOBSON - A taste of local history as well as dinner will be on the menu for the annual meeting of the Surry County Historical Society here next week.
Mount Airy News
September 10, 2016
Members of The Nonesuch Playmakers Theatre Group pose in costume as key historical figures in Rockford and Surry County, including, from left, Ray Jones (as Jesse Lester), Grant Perry (Thomas Ayers), Brack Llewellyn (William Polk Dobson), BrianÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com
September 8, 2016
Perhaps the most ironic event in post-World War Two history is that it was the villain of the narrative, Joseph Stalin, who kept his promise, and the heroes, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, who broke theirs.
Daily Journal Online
September 7, 2016
Documentation on the organization's roots at "Old" Bethel Church is found in "A History of The Baptists in Missouri," by Robert Samuel Duncan, and a segment from page 38 is as follows; "Bethel Church, though the second organized, may be regarded as the ...
Mount Airy News
September 5, 2016
And the threads of its early history are still woven through the outreach of numerous families spawned in Rockford whose descendants might live across the country, but still cherish that legacy - which explains an annual event scheduled there Saturday ...
Elkin Jonesville Tribune
September 4, 2016
... Rockford Methodist Church, where The Nonesuch Playmakers Theatre Group will perform a living history drama portraying the village's earliest founders and community leaders - John Thomas Longino, Jesse Lester, William Polk Dobson, Reuben Grant,ÃÂ ...
History News Network (HNN)
September 4, 2016
William R. Polk was a professor of history at the University of Chicago. During the Kennedy and part of the Johnson administrations, he was the member of the Policy Planning Council responsible for North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Truth-Out
August 17, 2016
Careful and expert analysts of ISIS and violent insurgencies (Scott Atran, William Polk and others) generally tend to take ISIS at its word.
The Herald
July 26, 2016
William Polk's careful study of insurgencies, "Violent Politics", should be essential reading for those who want to understand today's conflicts, and surely for planners, assuming that they care about human consequences and not merely power and ...
Bay City Daily Tribune
July 18, 2016
The old man sat leaning back in a wooden chair on the porch of his farm house, sleeping off Sunday dinner - the meal later generations of Texans would call lunch.
Bay City Daily Tribune
July 18, 2016
The old man sat leaning back in a wooden chair on the porch of his farm house, sleeping off Sunday dinner - the meal later generations of Texans would call lunch.
Greensburg Daily News
June 29, 2016
As Decatur County Historian, Russell Wilhoit was probably the first one to be nominated after all he's done for his home county.
93.1 WIBC Indianapolis
June 15, 2016
Polke died two years later, and vanished from history. State archivist Jim Corridan says no one was sure whether Polke had been ... William Polk is my 3rd cousin 6x removed. Our immigrant ancestor (my 8th great-grandfather) was Robert Pollock (Polk) inÃÂ ...
Utne Reader Online
May 26, 2016
William Polk's careful study of insurgencies, Violent Politics, should be essential reading for those who want to understand today's conflicts, and surely for planners, assuming that they care about human consequences and not merely power and ...
ISN
May 19, 2016
William Polk's careful study of insurgencies, Violent Politics, should be essential reading for those who want to understand today's conflicts and surely for planners, assuming that they care about human consequences and not merely power and domination ...
ISN
May 19, 2016
William Polk's careful study of insurgencies, Violent Politics, should be essential reading for those who want to understand today's conflicts and surely for planners, assuming that they care about human consequences and not merely power and domination ...
ISN
May 18, 2016
Just keeping to American history, George Washington regarded the common people who formed the militias that he was to command as "an exceedingly dirty and nasty people [evincing] an unaccountable kind of stupidity in the lower class of these people ...
ISN
May 18, 2016
Just keeping to American history, George Washington regarded the common people who formed the militias that he was to command as "an exceedingly dirty and nasty people [evincing] an unaccountable kind of stupidity in the lower class of these people ...
Consortium News
May 17, 2016
From the Archive: A century ago, Britain and France secretly divided up much of the Mideast, drawing artificial boundaries for Iraq and Syria, but Muslim resentment of Western imperialism went much deeper, as historian William R. Polk described in 2015 ...
Toward Freedom
May 12, 2016
Just keeping to American history, George Washington regarded the common people who formed the militias that he was to command as "an exceedingly dirty and nasty people [evincing] an unaccountable kind of stupidity in the lower class of these people ...
Truthdig
May 12, 2016
William Polk's careful study of insurgencies, Violent Politics, should be essential reading for those who want to understand today's conflicts, and surely for planners, assuming that they care about human consequences and not merely power and ...
The Nation.
May 10, 2016
William Polk's careful study of insurgencies, Violent Politics, should be essential reading for those who want to understand today's conflicts, and surely for planners, assuming that they care about human consequences and not merely power and ...
Salon
May 10, 2016
Just keeping to American history, George Washington regarded the common people who formed the militias that he was to command as "an exceedingly dirty and nasty people [evincing] an unaccountable kind of stupidity in the lower class of these people ...
The Nation.
May 9, 2016
Just keeping to American history, George Washington regarded the common people who formed the militias that he was to command as "an exceedingly dirty and nasty people [evincing] an unaccountable kind of stupidity in the lower class of these people ...
Huffington Post
May 9, 2016
In Violent Politics, his masterful review of insurgencies from "the American insurgency" to contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, William Polk concludes that General Washington "was so anxious to sideline [the fighters he despised] that he came close to ...
Huffington Post
May 8, 2016
In Violent Politics, his masterful review of insurgencies from "the American insurgency" to contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, William Polk concludes that General Washington "was so anxious to sideline [the fighters he despised] that he came close to ...
BBC News
March 8, 2016
Despite territorial losses, IS survives, thanks in no small part to its status as "the best-funded terrorist organisation" in history. While most people decry the validity inferred from the name of IS as a "state", the group's financing is ... "The ...
Consortium News
January 25, 2016
From the Archive: With U.S. weapons, Saudi Arabia is waging a brutal air war on impoverished Yemen, turning a long-simmering civil war into a proxy fight with regional rival Iran, a scenario that reminded retired U.S.
Consortium News
January 25, 2016
From the Archive: With U.S. weapons, Saudi Arabia is waging a brutal air war on impoverished Yemen, turning a long-simmering civil war into a proxy fight with regional rival Iran, a scenario that reminded retired U.S.
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