Historian, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Myra Burton is chief of the Africa and Americas Division in the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Burton compiles volumes on Southern Africa and North Africa for the Foreign Relations of the United States series. In addition to her work on the series, she developed an educational video project to facilitate the incorporation of foreign affairs in middle and high school classrooms,...
Associate Professor of History, Columbia University
Over the last decade I have been seeking new ways to understand the historical origins of contemporary world politics. Most scholars, trained to focus on great power rivalries, assume that the challenges posed by religious nationalism, ethnic conflict, and environmental change mark the start of a new era. In fact, recent events merely revealed deeper continuities with the more distant past, though...
Over the last decade I have been seeking new ways to understand the historical origins of contemporary world politics. Most scholars, trained to focus on great power rivalries, assume that the challenges posed by religious nationalism, ethnic conflict, and environmental change mark the start of a new era. In fact, recent events merely revealed deeper continuities with the more distant past, though...