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… York University, specializing in the early modern Ottoman Empire and its intricate rivalry with the neighboring Safavid Empire in Iran. Her research and publications delve into the …

… can never dream of permitting herself to be at war with a maritime and privateering people like the Americans, for … will seize upon, the sovereignty of that portion of the empire? Nor is this all. Do we not know, by abundant proofs, … a-year in a fruitless struggle against the African slave-trade. She most laudably makes it one of her chief objects to …

… significance as a crucial link in global networks of trade and resource exchange, Central Asia has played a … on the spaces beyond those occupied by the Russian Empire and the former Soviet Union. Claire Roosien, an … Crossroads at Yale. The first Central Asia Initiative event of the semester is scheduled for Nov. 20, featuring …

… defense and the assertion of prestige, but also to improve trade and communications. This talk looks at the implications …

… sought to establish an economic system that would foster trade, prosperity, and international development in the … British were coming to grips with the dismantling of their empire, and the fact that they were broke and no longer the … Consensus — a policy trifecta of deregulation, free trade, and increased privatization — gave them a new lease on …

… the ambitious early-16 th -century ruler of the Ottoman Empire, is a riveting series of chapters about Christopher … in writing God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World was to restore the … And in that logbook I spoke about, he connects that event—the expulsion of the last Muslim ruler from Spain—with …

… the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By detailing the trade in bodies, objects, goods, and ideas over more than two … ethnically diverse frontiers between the fall of the Qing empire and the rise of the People’s Republic. This project …

… rail, and ports. At a time when China fears an even larger trade war with the United States, and more severe curtailment … power with Washington and Brussels on exports and future trade agreements. The other factor stitching Asia together is … based infantry power, with no capacity to attack the U.S. maritime secuity system. None of these things are true any …

… Social Dialogue in Times of Troubled Identities.” This event commemorated the seventh anniversary of the passing of … which Donskis described as the “most precious political commodity” and evil. He warned against “self-inflicted …