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'DE POLICE NOTHING TO ME.... My consul my policeman and judge, too.' Thus did a tall, dark woman of undetermined nationality, wrapped in a spangled red gown of some filmy [...]

Praise first. This is our first issue in more than a decade that does not bear the imprint on every page of Linda Wrigley, our departing managing editor. A tireless [...]

The history of the Suez Canal's development and usage is more closely tied to European economic development than it is to Egypt, North Africa or the Middle East. The canal served to improve European access to European colonies in Africa. The Canal's development provided European nations with incentives to break up the Ottoman Empire and divide up African lands. African economic development may actually have been harmed by the creation of transportation networks that facilitated economic interaction.

Historians have adjusted their interpretations of the events of the Suez Crisis in the 1950s, with the release of more documents, though there are still some records which have not yet been opened. Some historians do not accept previous accounts of the crisis and have sought further explanations for decision-making and the failure or success of policies. Of particular importance are the impact of regional crises on the government of Sir Anthony Eden, UK Prime Minister, internal UK policy disputes, and the intricacy of the alliance between the UK and the US.

Watching them on our small black and white television screen in the summer of 1956, they seemed a forlorn and despairing procession, these men of the greatest of the Empire's [...]

'The method is the same in all cases--in philosophy, in any art or study. We must look for the attributes and the subjects of both our terms, and we must [...]

The invasion of Suez by Britain and France in 1956 following Egypt's nationalization of the canal was governed by the principles of regime change and pre-emptive self-defense and these same principles apply to the US/British intervention in Iraq that began in 2003. Questions such as the legal justifications for the attacks, intelligence, timing and planning for the day after draw parallels between the two actions even half a century later.