HIATUS: WEEK ONE

The themes of climate change and its implications have, in recent years, become major points of discussion amongst private citizens and public officials alike. Filmmakers, actors, and corporations have all taken massive steps to bring awareness to the reality of increasing global temperatures - one need only look at Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary film Before The Flood or …

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: TIDES OF CHANGE, REAGAN-BUSH

Having served his first term in office, Reagan, along with vice-presidential candidate George H.W. Bush sought re-election in 1984. Remaining steadfast in his conviction of a strong military and economic plan, the duo was successful in returning to the White House. The Reagan administration’s policy of widespread freedom and democracy, known as “the Reagan doctrine,” …

CHAPTER SEVEN: INTERWAR YEARS & THE THIRD SHIFT

In the twenty years that followed America’s return to isolationist policy, the struggle for power and relevance continued to dominate most european nations. New ideologies birthed revolutions, the game of politics remained incessant, and the cyclical nature of economics and finance carried on. On the domestic front, Americans witnessed a naval disarmament, expropriation of land …

CHAPTER FIVE: THE AFTERMATH & LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM

Roughly nine months after the United States made the decision to enter the war President Woodrow Wilson, in an effort to end the dispute and establish terms for peace, delivered a speech to the United States Congress. The discourse, commonly known as The Fourteen Points, was based on research conducted by a study group established …