Adrian Basora, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Director of the Project on Democratic Transitions, offers an in-depth assessment of the political, economic, and social transitions of Central and East European countries 15 years after the fall of communism; and discusses the development of non-democratic countries following 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He examines responses to democracy and looks at attempts to spread democracy.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the War of 1812, which started when England tried to restrict American shipping.

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A four-member panel of academic experts discusses the significance of the 2008 Olympics and the contact between the West and China that it invites and represents. This lecture was conducted for "China's Encounter with the West: A History Institute for Teachers," held on March 1-2, 2008. The event was sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Wachman Center and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program, and held at UTC.

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This entry is a repetition of node #19659, under the same name.

This iCue Mini-Documentary describes President Richard Nixon's historic trip to the People's Republic of China in 1972, the first trip by an American president since the takeover by the Communists in 1949.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Platt Amendment, which allowed the U.S. to interfere in the affairs of Cuba.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the U.S. division about which side to support when Britain and France were at war after the French Revolution.

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