The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...

From Poland’s land forces to Ukraine’s impressive military improvements over the last few years, the military forces of ...

Europe has been a flash point for war among both great and small powers for centuries. Conflicts beginning there have been known to spill over outside Europe, sometimes encompassing nearly the ...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system on ...

The process of industrialization, globalization and urbanization—spreading out from urban centers into the countryside—is one of the core developments of modern society. It has changed people's lives ...

Photographs, charts, and maps supplement the text ... Holocaust—make this an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. Volume III of the Encyclopedia ...

Entrenched corruption and weakening democratic institutions in the region can frequently be attributed to the dismantling of ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples include disputes between Ukraine and Russia, Taiwan and China, and India and ...