Listening to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech last weekend, one word kept running through my head: Plataea. If you’re ...

IT is said that the official recording of International Relations began with Thucydides’ book, the Peloponnesian Wars, about the balance of power in the ...

Despite opposition, the Municipality of Trifylia, southern Greece, uprooted a historic tree, tied to the Greece's War of ...

Lysistrata” chronicles the story of a young Greek woman weaponizing her sexual prowess for the greater good. What lessons can ...

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

Today's current affairs seem so mirrored in the past; the great events of long, long ago seem so similar to what’s happening today. Not events ...

Remember that line. Does it speak to you of today? The siege of Melos took place in 416BC during the Peloponnesian War between democratic Athens and Sparta. Melos was a small neutral Greek island.

Their motto is: "We know, we find, we destroy." President Trump's repeated claim before he took office, that he could end in just 24 hours the war that Russia launched with its full-scale invasion ...

When Ilya Rusinov returned to the Russian work force after rehabilitating a vertebra damaged in the Ukraine war, his first job was teaching in a school. But he had also launched a side project ...

Jon Jackson is a News Editor at Newsweek based in New York. His focus is on reporting on the Ukraine and Russia war. Jon previously worked at The Week, the River Journal, Den of Geek and Maxim.

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Historically, some have taken that as a sign for peace as Mars has been the “planet of war and conflict in many cultures, from ancient China to ancient Rome,” according to science writer ...