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How Offenses Escalate ConflictFive women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and began a performance of a "e;Punk Prayer."e; Young people fried eggs on the eternal flame near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ukraine. A small island in the Japan Sea provoked a diplomatic spat between the leadership of Japan and South...

The Bible in Shakespeare is a critical study of the links between the two great pillars of English culture, the Bible and the works of Shakespeare....

Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to KantThe Rights of War and Peace is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Tuck then...

Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's DayMontaigne's English Journey provides a vivid account of the ways in which English readers made sense of Montaigne's Essays during the seventeenth century and how it influenced their own writing....

A School of the 21st Century Model at the Independence School DistrictOne of the major domestic policy issues of our time is whether our nation can provide a more effective educational experience for our children. Economists have stressed that the quality of our educational system eventually defines the ability of our workforce, which in turn...

Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular CultureAfter purgatory was officially defined by the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century, its location became a topic of heated debate and philosophical speculation: Was purgatory located on the earth, or within it? Were its fires real or figurative?  Diana Walsh Pasulka offers a groundbreaking...