After World War II, nations pledged to create a more equal and law-abiding world. Now Russia, China and the U.S. are returning to an older model in which powerful countries impose their will.

Co-edited by Schwaller and Vitus Huber of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, the book revolves around Hernán Cortés, ...

Grandin is a professor at Yale and the author of the forthcoming “America, América: A New History of ... along with much of the world, renounced the doctrine of conquest, our leaders still ...

Indeed, the age of empires may have ended with World War II, as world powers have moved on from colonization and conquest in favor of geopolitical and commercial influence. We've ranked the 19 ...